The SIDN, the registry for Dutch.nl domains, which until recently only allowed companies to register.nl domains, now allows individuals to register a domain name as well. However this is a second-level domain, of the form DOMAIN.###.NL where ### is a randomly assigned combination of three digits. This allows up to 1000 people to register the 'same' domain, for instance people having the same name can still both use their own name as domain name.
I'm still waiting for the first person to send me such a 'cool new domain name'. Most Dutch people who wanted a domain simply got a.org/.net instead or asked a friend at some company to register it for them.
One of my hobbies is maintaining and extending a prototype NL interface that I created when I did my PhD in Computational Linguistics (it attempts to give information about TV schedules in the Amsterdam area).
The big issue with NLP is the ambiguity problem, which can only be completely solved if computers have Real World Knowledge. In the meantime, reasonable interfaces can be created for specific domains. The most important things to consider when designing such a system are robustness and error handling. This means, as was said before: if you're not sure, ask the user what he means. But use any information at your disposal to disambiguate first.
They should sue MS because it's (mostly) their operating system that allows access to these copyrighted materials! I mean, they even have a way of saving files onto a thing called a hard drive, not to mention the media player which allows users to view them.
For some obscure reason I chose the name 'xample' as login name for our local freenet (dds) in Amsterdam, back in 1994. In 1997 I received an email from a German company named Xample (GMBH?), warning me that using my login handle on my homepage might be a trademark infringement.
Buncha morons. They never even managed to get the xample.com domain.
Also as someone has already pointed out, what about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
As far as I can tell from the IBM press release, there is no uncertainty here. The 'mirage' always appears. It is an effect that is predicted by whatever theory this is based on, so probability doesn't have much to do with it (except maybe to explain why the mirage effect's intensity is only one third of the original atom's).
The answer is simple. If it is of relevance, and people want to keep it (remember Oliver North ?), then people will keep it. People will judge the value, and take appropriate action. Otherwise, it goes to the bit bucket in the sky, and remains there......
Historians are also interested in the stuff that people did not explicitly choose to keep because it may reveal facts that seemed unimportant at the time, but have been forgotten since.
However, I don't think that means that all our receipts should be converted to more lasting media. We'd drown in our own history.
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This is not quite true: you need a telephone modem that connects to the tax dept. computers directly to submit your tax form.
...is even scarier than Teletubbies.
I'm still waiting for the first person to send me such a 'cool new domain name'. Most Dutch people who wanted a domain simply got a .org/.net instead or asked a friend at some company to register it for them.
The big issue with NLP is the ambiguity problem, which can only be completely solved if computers have Real World Knowledge. In the meantime, reasonable interfaces can be created for specific domains. The most important things to consider when designing such a system are robustness and error handling. This means, as was said before: if you're not sure, ask the user what he means. But use any information at your disposal to disambiguate first.
They should sue MS because it's (mostly) their operating system that allows access to these copyrighted materials! I mean, they even have a way of saving files onto a thing called a hard drive, not to mention the media player which allows users to view them.
Reusable code isn't everything.
Buncha morons. They never even managed to get the xample.com domain.
Weird how someone with an obvious domain name like that still hasn't gotten a site up and running...
As far as I can tell from the IBM press release, there is no uncertainty here. The 'mirage' always appears. It is an effect that is predicted by whatever theory this is based on, so probability doesn't have much to do with it (except maybe to explain why the mirage effect's intensity is only one third of the original atom's).
Historians are also interested in the stuff that people did not explicitly choose to keep because it may reveal facts that seemed unimportant at the time, but have been forgotten since.
However, I don't think that means that all our receipts should be converted to more lasting media. We'd drown in our own history.