4) The purpose of the ban is to stop people from starting smoking.
Since most people start smoking in their teens a ban to the age of 18
is there to stop these people from picking up the habit. and then by a straightforward iteration of this process we may add:
5) This ban to stop teens from starting smoking will inevitably increase the appeal of smoking...
... However, the term is mostly used in three different contexts: when referring to a tool (or machine); a technique; the cultural force; or a combination of the three... I suspect that mashups can be counted as a tool, a technique and a cultural force. Your quote says that the term technology is commonly used in three different context, and within these context then it might means, for instance, slightly different things, depending on the context, etc.
The quote does not talk about the definition of the term.
Then, even if something is counted as a tool (or machine), a technique, and the cultural force, that still does not imply that that something is technology.
In general, "technology" is the relationship that society has with its tools and crafts,[...] [...]
A mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool;[...] My interpretation of that would be that a mashup is a technology. Then your interpretation ain't interpreting much of what you quote: mashup is a tool, technology the relationship that society has with its tools.
My pay raise is due in a couple weeks, so we'll see how that goes. My last 2 were pretty huge, though, so I've no complaints yet. I hope it all goes well though. The huger the better!
A few years ago I was working in IT for a university. One of the professors didn't like the buttons by the touchpad because he would bump it with his palms while typing and end focus would change to some other app. So instead of disabling the touchpad, he just broke the buttons off. That was fun to explain to the Dell rep when he had some other hardware problems that needed to be replaced. Did this Dell rep by any chance wore khakis?
Gee, can you conspiracy theorists take a break for a second and consider that, just perhaps, this was written for commercial telecom management, marketing and fraud detection purposes? It was written and in the public domain before 9-11. What conspiracy? Since it was written before 2001, that means... what does it mean?
Its basically just C with some generic structures thrown on top of it.
Also, it was created in 2000.
Its intent, as some have mentioned, was marketing.
Basically it does what Google Analytics or WebTrends does for the web.
It actually seems like a nice language, for those who want to quickly run through gigs of data.
I see nothing evil about the language itself.
It, like C, perl, PHP, or any other language you chose to use - Can be used for whatever purpose the programmer chooses.
Its intent was marketing, and almost every company in existence wants to know more about their customers. Ok, let me enlighten you: there is a blue pill, and there is a red pill... oh, you've already taken one... nevermind
You remember when that North Carolina State professor made a supercomputer out of eight PS3s? He couldn't have done that if "supercomputer" didn't have a rock solid meaning. Which would be what exactly?
Here is a little quote about the eight PS3 supercomputer from here:
"Scientific computing is just number crunching, which the PS3s are very good at given the Cell processor and deploying them in a cluster," Mueller says. "Right now one limitation is the 512 megabyte RAM memory constraint, but it might be possible to retrofit more RAM. We just haven't cracked the case and explored that option yet." Another problem lies in limited speed for double-precision calculations required by scientific applications, but announcements for the next-generation Cell processor address this issue.
"In the computing world there is a list of the top 500 fastest computers," Mueller says. Currently the fastest is BlueGene/L, a supercomputer with more than 130,000 processors at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The PS3 cluster at NC State does not break into the top 500, but Mueller estimates that with approximately 10,000 PS3 machines anyone could create the fastest computer in the world - albeit with limited single-precision capabilities and networking constraints. It's a sweet thing, no doubt, but still with limited memory, limited FP, limited bandwidth, unlimited price.
From the site:
Twine is a website where people can dump information that's important to them, from strings of e-mails to YouTube videos. and then web site does the semantic part...
Revolutionary or what?
Yeah, but here in S. Korea, I don't even think they know who Google is. That's pretty impressive. Want to do an internet search? Naver.com. Want a map? Naver. Want a friend's e-mail address? Naver. Shopping? Naver. Jeez. It's everyone's home page. It searches everything in Korea. No one uses anything else. Naver is then Google!
Every German I interacted with in my five year deployment (Stuttgart and Hoehenfells) was HAPPY that I had bothered to make an attempt to speak their language. They were not insulted, they did not "look ddown at me" as I attempt to master their language. That didn't stop most of them from trying to practice their English. It's a funny situation when a each person is speaking a language they are still learning. So if I understand this correctly, you were speaking German and they were speaking English during your conversations?
Since this story involves a political ad which responded to another political ad, it's probably safe to guess the matter revolved around political speech, and that's precisely what the First Amendment protects. However, the Constitution deals with what the Government may and may not do, not what a private company can choose or refuse to display, and in this case the Government was (properly) not involved. Except that companies cannot act unconstitutionally, they are not above or aside of the government.
Even though this has been stated to not be the case,
are they, as a corporation, not allowed to have political leanings? I don't know, but this sounds also as the contradiction in terms.
...and the futility of trying to communicate with close-minded ignorant folks in the world, I guess you either think you have more knowledge about Chinese than the authors' of the Chinese linguistic books I read or suffer from some other kind of misconception. We're getting serious, charges are flying here and there, like "insult", etc. Ok, it's serious I can see, yet by reading you I cannot keep my face straight. Maybe that is not bad after all, I don't know, I am smiling... In your terminology, and perhaps to make a friendly gesture, let me demonstrate that I indeed suffer from some kind of missing conception, like in: my laughing is in fact, objectively, a kind of suffering due to incorrect conception.
I am talking about my concept of the letter d, which doubtlessly does not conceive the correct idea of the letter d. I am conceiving it more like a swollen belly. Like the letter D. That would definitely be a conception of the concept of letter D, like in: being pregnant, already conceived. Then, for me,:D is like an ideogram, like smiling or laughing face.
All languages are spoken. The writing that accompanies the language is not the language. It is only a representation of the language. So then, I got encouraged by your statement: after all, since D is not the language, nor:D for that matter, everything fits into my idea of conception, what it means to be conceived or to conceive. I am already not suffering anymore, have no misconceptions.
In Chinese, the concept of "dog" is represented by a single symbol, and the strokes are all essential to conveying the concept. By that I mean that in English I could remove a symbol and still possibly lead a person to reconstruct the concept of "dog" by adding a placeholder, as in "_og" (a pet), but in Chinese, removing any of the strokes destroys the meaning of the concept conveyed. So then, as you said, "_og" (a pet) should allow someone to reconstruct the concept of dog. This is possible, because there is accompanying description (it's about a concept that is also a pet) and there is this placeholder. Curious thing that placeholder: it's a stroke, we cannot possibly remove or omit it, for otherwise we end up with '"og" (a pet)'. Now, _ is a stroke that means that a letter is missing at the position where the stroke is. We cannot speak the placeholder. But still, this stroke definitely means that there exists a letter that makes the missing concept not missing anymore. Or it forms from a sequence of letters nothing less but a fully formed concept. It's like a miracle this placeholder.
Which letter is then missing? Well, I know what conceives the concept, so then I can just write: "Dog" instead of "_og". But then, to be sure, I can write "dog" as well. Or, for all I care, I can reconstruct the missing concept (is "_og" concept at all?) like in:D og. Or:Dog. I like this one.
It is the concept that we're talking about: it represents conception, a pet, and a big laugh. It's pregnant with meaning: :Dog
Yes, I did read it. Did you read my posting? What I said in that posting was about dolmant_php's claims and those he was attributing to Dr. Nibley (that language doesn't evolve), not about the original referenced article (with which I generally agree, but which I consider to be largely old news). So then it looks like you were talking about evolution/creation of language and I was more like aiming at written/spoken language distinction.
Curious, then, that in my linguistics course I've spent a *lot* of time studying incremental changes to language (including the ones described in the referenced article -- did you read it?) Did you read it? The very first paragraph says this
Verbs evolve and homogenize at a rate inversely proportional to their prevalence in the English language, according to a formula developed by Harvard University mathematicians who've invoked evolutionary principles to study our language over the past 1,200 years, from "Beowulf" to "Canterbury Tales" to "Harry Potter." Not much spoken words here. Yet you still write:
[...]I challenge you to find a serious linguist who doesn't believe that spoken language long precedes written language [...] What that has to do with the study in the article?
The only way that COBOL may ever end is when English changes so much that COBOL no longer reads as English. Yeah, COBOL, great example, that's really interesting language!
You'll also find "burglarize" in American dictionaries. There's already a prefectly good verb - burgle - from which comes burglar, but you guys get all confused about shortening a noun to verberize it, so you have to make a new, bigger verb so you can feel safe about conjugaterizationerizing that. Does my head in. But wait, what about the rule that every noun can be verbed?
Aside from their archive of "least used verbs throughout history" where else do you find these words? Have you seen the movie Speaking Parts? If you haven't, I recommend it very much. Made in 1989. In one of the scenes, hotel manager tells to one of her workers: "Be careful though, my friend was quite smitten by you". This was also very very important scene in the movie, etc...
Since Chinese is a spoken language rather than a written language [...]
(The writing is mostly pictorial representing whole concepts), Here is one for you: LOL! I'm laughing out loud reading your post...
it [Chinese] wasn't frozen in place with a bunch of affixes (suffixes, prefixes, etc.) or genders and all that other stuff that makes English hard to learn. Subject, verb, predicate.. That's all there is? You can't regularize verbs better than that! LOL! I'm still laughing out loud. Boy that is funny! LOL! Like in: writing being mostly(?) pictorial representing whole concepts. Like LOL? Or u?:-D
[...]since Cantonese doesn't really exist in a written form, it constantly changes patterns and vocabulary. Do they know then how to read or write?
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5) This ban to stop teens from starting smoking will inevitably increase the appeal of smoking...
Oh shit, this is funny all right :D
Also, it was created in 2000. Its intent, as some have mentioned, was marketing. Basically it does what Google Analytics or WebTrends does for the web.
It actually seems like a nice language, for those who want to quickly run through gigs of data.
I see nothing evil about the language itself. It, like C, perl, PHP, or any other language you chose to use - Can be used for whatever purpose the programmer chooses. Its intent was marketing, and almost every company in existence wants to know more about their customers. Ok, let me enlighten you: there is a blue pill, and there is a red pill... oh, you've already taken one... nevermind
"In the computing world there is a list of the top 500 fastest computers," Mueller says. Currently the fastest is BlueGene/L, a supercomputer with more than 130,000 processors at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The PS3 cluster at NC State does not break into the top 500, but Mueller estimates that with approximately 10,000 PS3 machines anyone could create the fastest computer in the world - albeit with limited single-precision capabilities and networking constraints. It's a sweet thing, no doubt, but still with limited memory, limited FP, limited bandwidth, unlimited price.
that's funny stuff alright...
are they, as a corporation, not allowed to have political leanings? I don't know, but this sounds also as the contradiction in terms.
...and the futility of trying to communicate with close-minded ignorant folks in the world, I guess you either think you have more knowledge about Chinese than the authors' of the Chinese linguistic books I read or suffer from some other kind of misconception. We're getting serious, charges are flying here and there, like "insult", etc. Ok, it's serious I can see, yet by reading you I cannot keep my face straight. Maybe that is not bad after all, I don't know, I am smiling... In your terminology, and perhaps to make a friendly gesture, let me demonstrate that I indeed suffer from some kind of missing conception, like in: my laughing is in fact, objectively, a kind of suffering due to incorrect conception. I am talking about my concept of the letter d, which doubtlessly does not conceive the correct idea of the letter d. I am conceiving it more like a swollen belly. Like the letter D. That would definitely be a conception of the concept of letter D, like in: being pregnant, already conceived. Then, for me,Which letter is then missing? Well, I know what conceives the concept, so then I can just write: "Dog" instead of "_og". But then, to be sure, I can write "dog" as well. Or, for all I care, I can reconstruct the missing concept (is "_og" concept at all?) like in