This bullshit is Lotus 1-2-3 versus VP Planner all over again. Or Apple versus Microsoft over Windows. Apple lost that one. Lotus lost when they went after Borland over Quattro Pro. Some people don't learn from history.
Actually Lotus had a stronger case, if anything, because the software they were fighting could read and work with Lotus files.
If you're sent to the nuclear plant by the Yakuza because you owe lots of money, that situations is very far removed from any concept of worker's rights.
Die of radiation in ten years, so you're not stabbed to death next week.
It's changing right now, in ways you don't know about. Both malware and non-malware alike is having a field day with your system configuration. Soon you will be "solving" the problem by buying a new PC and migrating whatever files you're still able to salvage.
If a language "dies" from lack of interest (nobody wants to learn it, use it and pass it down to their children), that is a natural thing that should be left to take its course.
I mean, what is the alternative? Surely, you can't force people to learn a language they are not interested in. How do you motivate people to revive a language that, say, only a few thousand people know?
This project, how does it actually protect "dying" languages? If some aspect of a language is kept in a museum, is that language really alive? I would say that it's rather like specimen in a jar, if we are to keep with this analogy of language as a living thing.
A language is only alive to the extent that it has native speakers, or at least very highly proficient quasi-native speakers.
Now if the disappearance of a language is due to, say, genocide, then that's a whole different problem, isn't it! People dying versus a language simply falling out of use.
Most people are not going to become scientists. At the elementary school level, people are not yet pre-selected for thinking roles; you're looking at basically a more or less random sample of the population.
Out of a thousand elementary school kids, how many will become scientists, engineers, etc?
Now if, say, third year engineering students across the USA are were found to be struggling with reasoning skills, oops, that would be troubling news.
Unfortunately for those kids who are struggling with reasoning, though, a lot of the kinds of jobs that they might have easily gone into after high school fifty years ago are now overseas.
The rail-guided mechanism which makes this bed work is utterly uninteresting, and probably won't handle custom bed coverings or multiple layers, like duvet with cover. The bed cover is permanently attached at the foot corners of the bed, and pulled into place by a mechanism moving on parallel rails toward the head of the bed.
The pillows are elevated by some mechanical lift, which allows the cover to slide under, and so the pillows cannot be moved arbitrarily.
This bullshit is less impressive than the machinery in bowling lanes for arranging the bowling pins.
Skype, voice, social networks: This is just a continuation of the millennia-old girl network, now happening over the electronic network. As a heterosexual male, I want to be talked *about* on that network (whether it be on or offline), but not actually be there.
Health: I'm a guy! I go for years without seeing a doctor.
E-reader: Most paperback pulp at the supermarket is aimed at women; now it's on devices. Inevitable.
GPS: Ask for directions? No way, I know where we are. I'm a guy! Furthermore, I don't care that it's a creepy area and it's getting dark.
An engineer, let alone a smart one, has no future in a political career.
The right kind of nerd to succeed in politics has to have a hunger for power that far exceeds his distaste for every aspect of politics and all of the surrounding personalities he will come into contact with.
Not to mention what he himself has to become.
Engineering is based on truth. You don't say that the bridge will support a 25,000 kg vehicle if you aren't sure.
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I think I joined in late 1997 or early 1998.
Four digit user ID club. :)
Why hate Zynga. They wrote their own code, didn't they? Is the artwork a pixel-for-pixel copy, or a stylistic imitation?
This bullshit is Lotus 1-2-3 versus VP Planner all over again. Or Apple versus Microsoft over Windows. Apple lost that one. Lotus lost when they went after Borland over Quattro Pro. Some people don't learn from history.
Actually Lotus had a stronger case, if anything, because the software they were fighting could read and work with Lotus files.
Indeed!
It's like when the network is lagged, and you keep typing commands and hitting Enter.
If by doing that you delete files accidentally, do you sue the network? The developers of OpenSSH? :)
A: Konnichiwa :)
B: Waaa, nihongo jouzu desu ne!!!
Who submitted the orders, NASDAQ or the Swiss bank?
If the system is down, don't keep submitting orders. Or keep track of them yourself? Gee, you're a big bank, you can count!
The trading systems have disclaimers which cover this kind of eventuality (order execution times not being guaranteed).
If you're sent to the nuclear plant by the Yakuza because you owe lots of money, that situations is very far removed from any concept of worker's rights.
Die of radiation in ten years, so you're not stabbed to death next week.
The real scoop about how it is:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-in/9084151/How-the-Yakuza-went-nuclear.html
or it's just one or two really busy ones.
Sprinting shoes are basically just a slipper with a spike plate in the toe.
A light road racing shoe can improve 5K, 10K and marathon times, though, compared to a heavy jogging shoe.
They are located in the dermis of the upper lip and produce a feature called "moustache".
This produces an irresistible magnetic attraction in the opposite sex.
The view is relevant because this is a useless feature that people dont' need. Which means that the OTA upgrade to remove it is just an overture.
They would not do this to remove something significant and competitive.
Incorrect. Congress doesn't have the authority to regulate taco stands. Or any other business that never crosses a border.
You are wrong. If you think otherwise, open a taco stand and put up a big sign saying "We only serve white people".
But that's cannibalism/murder.
It's changing right now, in ways you don't know about. Both malware and non-malware alike is having a field day with your system configuration.
Soon you will be "solving" the problem by buying a new PC and migrating whatever files you're still able to salvage.
... although, we have wireless for that, so, dumb idea.
Amp stack stays on the bridge, player rocks out over the edge.
If a language "dies" from lack of interest (nobody wants to learn it, use it and pass it down to their children), that is a natural thing that should be left to take its course.
I mean, what is the alternative? Surely, you can't force people to learn a language they are not interested in. How do you motivate people to revive a language that, say, only a few thousand people know?
This project, how does it actually protect "dying" languages? If some aspect of a language is kept in a museum, is that language really alive? I would say that it's rather like specimen in a jar, if we are to keep with this analogy of language as a living thing.
A language is only alive to the extent that it has native speakers, or at least very highly proficient quasi-native speakers.
Now if the disappearance of a language is due to, say, genocide, then that's a whole different problem, isn't it! People dying versus a language simply falling out of use.
Most people are not going to become scientists. At the elementary school level, people are not yet pre-selected for thinking roles; you're looking at basically a more or less random sample of the population.
Out of a thousand elementary school kids, how many will become scientists, engineers, etc?
Now if, say, third year engineering students across the USA are were found to be struggling with reasoning skills, oops, that would be troubling news.
Unfortunately for those kids who are struggling with reasoning, though, a lot of the kinds of jobs that they might have easily gone into after high school fifty years ago are now overseas.
but photo shows white booth babes.
The rail-guided mechanism which makes this bed work is utterly uninteresting, and probably won't handle custom bed coverings or multiple layers, like duvet with cover. The bed cover is permanently attached at the foot corners of the bed, and pulled into place by a mechanism moving on parallel rails toward the head of the bed.
The pillows are elevated by some mechanical lift, which allows the cover to slide under, and so the pillows cannot be moved arbitrarily.
This bullshit is less impressive than the machinery in bowling lanes for arranging the bowling pins.
No surprise.
Skype, voice, social networks: This is just a continuation of the millennia-old girl network, now happening over the electronic network. As a heterosexual male, I want to be talked *about* on that network (whether it be on or offline), but not actually be there.
Health: I'm a guy! I go for years without seeing a doctor.
E-reader: Most paperback pulp at the supermarket is aimed at women; now it's on devices. Inevitable.
GPS: Ask for directions? No way, I know where we are. I'm a guy! Furthermore, I don't care that it's a creepy area and it's getting dark.
An engineer, let alone a smart one, has no future in a political career.
The right kind of nerd to succeed in politics has to have a hunger for power that far exceeds his distaste for every aspect of politics and all of the surrounding personalities he will come into contact with.
Not to mention what he himself has to become.
Engineering is based on truth. You don't say that the bridge will support a 25,000 kg vehicle if you aren't sure.
Politics is based on straight-faced lying.
The only reason for someone like Bin Laden to encrypt anything is that his enemy will want the key badly enough to keep him alive.
Look, they shot him first and only then did they even find out he didn't encrypt anything.
He knew that basically if anyone got to those unencrypted files, that means they got to him, in which case he is toast.
Yes, but well before that decryption takes place, if ever ... you're shot dead.
You encrypt when not disclosing the key will keep you alive.
Nothing new here.