In Finnish, there is no equivalent, but there are two similar constructs, the "obviousness clitic" -han/-hän, and "it's obviously false" equivalent of "allegedly", muka. They're highly useful for abusing purposes in political discussions. For example:
Microsofthan on laiton monopoli. "Obviously Microsoft is an illegal monopoly."
Microsoft aikoo muka korjata sen bugin. "Microsoft is going to - no way in hell - fix that bug."
If I'd shape your message into the latter form: Kuinkahan tämä/muka/ muovaa syntyperäisen choktawin puhujan ajattelua? ("I wonder how/the hell/ do you think this would shape the thinking of a native Choktaw speaker?") The thing is, that people will evaluate the trustability of a person, no matter what he says.
In Finnish, marketing types don't use these constructs I mentioned, because that'd make them sound arrogant. On the other hand, I suspect in Choktaw they use whatever is the default, "I think this is true", as the marketeer doesn't want to sound like "I just heard this from some guy". OTOH, IANALinguist.
"Samolli"? If you mean "Somali", this is perfect demonstration that people speaking the English language lose the ability to build a contrastive vowel and sound length system. A is basically the same as O, and O+digraph is the same as A+unigraph, right? (OLL same as AL) It isn't, but English-speakers lose this difference.
My language, Finnish, does have contrastive vowels, and it's hilarious when anglophone academics spell or even pronounce e.g. "Mallasliitoo" (malt flight), when they mean Maalaisliitto (Agrarian Union).
No. I don't support the theory that the evolutionary model is responsible for Linux - it's Torvalds who decides it all, right? On the other hand, I don't believe this "Intelligent Design" theory either...
Does anyone you know still run Windows?
"Run"??
What religion are you?
Should I?
Vi or emacs?
Worse is better. vi and emacs have had a very successful competetion in this.
But under this lighter-than-featherweight touch, the spacecraft will begin to move. The 100kg object will accelerate at a barely measurable fraction of a millimetre per second, but will gain speed with every second in the sun. By the end of the first day it will have increased its velocity by 100mph. In 100 days, it could reach 10,000mph.
Gaurdain. 100-kg object or 100 kg object, not "100kg object". Acceleration isn't measured in velocity units (mm/s). What does it mean if something has "increased its velocity by hundredemphhh"?
"Given our information overload, it's easy to miss the most significant kernels of news."
You've just described Slashdot. It's a miracle that this bit of actually interesting news got thru. Most of Slashdot "content" is links to intellectually inbred programmer geeks' "news" about very small increments in development.
"Dan Kaminsky Suggests Having Fun with DNS". (...) I wonder when someone messages in that in their school/city/country/homeworld the letters "DNS" stand for Darn Naughty Schoolgirls or something similar. It'd be interesting at least.
In an Unix system, the porn stash can be kept in your home directory, which is *actually* safe.
Joking aside, what you can do with Windows is only what Microsoft and its evil minions want you to do. They pretend they know what you want to do, but they don't. They just write hollow shells that look nice but don't do anything useful. Ever tried formatting real math equations with anything Microsoft/WYSIWYG?
Mrs. Piia-Noora Kauppi is the only Finnish MEP that protested against the attempts at strong-arm the patent directive to force. FFII reported this. She has also held a speech at a Linux convention.
Kauppi belongs to the National Coalition, a right-wing party in Finland that favors the rights of enterpreneurs, especially the small enterpreneurs. With excessive power, big corporations are just as bad as a Communist government. (This opinion by Sirpa Pietikäinen, another MEP of the Coalition.)
Software patents would harm small enterpreneurs and freedom, so the right-wing party can't be in favor of them. So, the Socialists or Greens don't represent your opinion against software patents. Remember that one of the key Finnish supporters of software patents has been Erkki Liikanen, a member of the European Commission, who is a Social Democrat!
--- Toisin sanoen: Ainoa softapatentteja voimakkaasti vastustanut euroedustaja on Piia-Noora Kauppi. Kokoomuslaisena Kauppi ei missään nimessä voi kannattaa isojen firmojen mahdollisuutta jyrätä pienyrittäjiä. Sosiaalidemokraatti Erkki Liikanenhan on kannattanut softapatentteja.
Another interesting bug I've found is that QBasic doesn't reproduce a zero (0) when it's placed as a first character in a STRING variable. I noticed this when I created strings like "020113". If accessed, it'd see that as "20113", so the following operations were borken.
I'd strongly discourage against introducing any of those poor excuses of programming languages of the Basic family. They were abandoned (only exception Microsoft, "yesterday's computing, tomorrow".) for a reason. Basic teaches that programming is all about intellectual masturbation using variables and flow control statements. If you want to show programming, use Java (or Ruby) to introduce object typing, so she sees that programming is about modelling the real world and helping people to arrange things. Basic will introduce unhealthy intellectually inbred manners and concepts that are hard to root out later.
This submission struck me. In case you haven't seen it before, it's the famous collection of image pairs of Bush and a chimpanzee. True, the system can pick things that don't even remotely look like faces. But this image shows that we a still very, very far from a dependable system.
All 20 Bushes are recognized correctly. The only anomaly is a repeated recognition of one face; the system sees two faces at the same location. But on the other hand, only one chimpanzee face of 20 is recognized in full and one by its eyes. In 15 of the 19 chimpanzees, the system sees no face at all. The remaining two chimpanzees show a false positive.
How can smoke then go to the atmosphere, when it's not even gaseous but dead SOLID? Similarly you could claim you can't mix mud and water because mud is heavier than water.
The thing about fluoridated hydrocarbons is that under ultraviolet light they decompose and start to destroy random molecules, one of them ozone. They're a very efficient catalyst for ozone decomposition. It's been estimated that one mole of CFC can catalyze 100000 moles of ozone decomposition reactions until it settles down.
In this respect, it is different from, say, methane and CO2: one mole of methane corresponds exactly to one mole of methane pollution effects. One mole of CFC corresponds to 100000 moles of destruction. That's why even small amounts, like leaking from fridges, can be significant.
The reason is not the terrorist attack. The reason is called "Bush".
No wonder science is declining when it's easiest to get funds to craft new overblown rocks and wooden spears.
The traditionally best known areas of U.S. dominance in science are: fighter plane and "nucular" arms research. That is, killing people. Space flight and aeronautics, nuclear technology and supercomputing are the areas which did develop significantly because of the American need to blow shit up. There's no Soviet Union anymore to justify this. Those days are now over.
Bush is trying to avoid this by staging wars.
Another problem is the Bushist notion that caring for the environment and developing new technology would be mutually exclusive. These days are over, too. Today, making technology environmentally friendly boosts development (which is NOT the same as economic growth). Europeans have been constructing safer and more efficient cars while USA has fallen to the bigger-is-better SUV craze.
It seems we're approaching another kind of "technology singularity" in the cryptology arms race: trust is reduced back into the human. In the stone age, trust was based only on humans, because all communications were conducted in interpersonal meetings. Now, with all this measure and countermeasure, we've gone thru a full circle: trust is in the human, not in technology.
On the other hand, the curl was nonzero: there was a net privacy and distance increment when integrating around the full circle. That is, for secure communication, meeting is not necessary. The rest of this "development" is not real development but measure and countermeasure.
Extrapolate, not interpolate. We'd need a comment from someone who manages >100000 machines to "interpolate". Interpolation means you evaluate between two or more known data points. Here you're using just one point, and that's always extrapolation.
OK, offtopic, but let's avoid one common misunderstanding. Flight of airplanes is based on the Coanda effect, which was found by Henri Coanda, the inventor and builder of the first jet airplane. Even if the Wright brothers could put this effect into use, they didn't understand it. See: A Physical Description of Lift
This is not new. The service by Sulake Labs Oy, Habbo Hotel has already achieved some popularity by selling "virtual furniture" to a game which is like Sim with bad graphics and a weak chat system. The furniture is paid by sending a SMS text message, so the spent money is charged in the phone bill. The users are usually kids, who can spend a terrible amount of money without realizing it. It is available in English: Habbo Hotel
Notice that the conjencture "any significant number - other than 0 - is between 0 and 1" is unfalsifiable, because if the number is not between 0 and 1, its _reciprocal_ is!
The problem is the question: do we accept the "significance" if the number is not in 0-1? If we don't accept, it is an "inverse Texas sharpshooter fallacy". The "Texas sharpshooter" shoots into the wall of a barn and then draws a target around the position where most of the bullets hit. We name a target (0-1) and blame the gunsights if they don't hit. (Blaming systematic precision errors for accuracy problems.) Like this: it is the _reciprocal_ of pi that is the significant number, not pi itself!
If a conjencture is unfalsifiable, it is meaningless. This conjencture is: we can always say the reciprocal is the significant number.
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In Finnish, there is no equivalent, but there are two similar constructs, the "obviousness clitic" -han/-hän, and "it's obviously false" equivalent of "allegedly", muka. They're highly useful for abusing purposes in political discussions. For example:
/muka/ muovaa syntyperäisen choktawin puhujan ajattelua? ("I wonder how /the hell/ do you think this would shape the thinking of a native Choktaw speaker?") The thing is, that people will evaluate the trustability of a person, no matter what he says.
Microsofthan on laiton monopoli. "Obviously Microsoft is an illegal monopoly."
Microsoft aikoo muka korjata sen bugin. "Microsoft is going to - no way in hell - fix that bug."
If I'd shape your message into the latter form: Kuinkahan tämä
In Finnish, marketing types don't use these constructs I mentioned, because that'd make them sound arrogant. On the other hand, I suspect in Choktaw they use whatever is the default, "I think this is true", as the marketeer doesn't want to sound like "I just heard this from some guy". OTOH, IANALinguist.
Siedettävämpää tekstiä. Nokian maasta - From the land of Nokia.
"Samolli"? If you mean "Somali", this is perfect demonstration that people speaking the English language lose the ability to build a contrastive vowel and sound length system. A is basically the same as O, and O+digraph is the same as A+unigraph, right? (OLL same as AL) It isn't, but English-speakers lose this difference.
My language, Finnish, does have contrastive vowels, and it's hilarious when anglophone academics spell or even pronounce e.g. "Mallasliitoo" (malt flight), when they mean Maalaisliitto (Agrarian Union).
What's your favorite Linux distribution? Why?
No. I don't support the theory that the evolutionary model is responsible for Linux - it's Torvalds who decides it all, right? On the other hand, I don't believe this "Intelligent Design" theory either...
Does anyone you know still run Windows?
"Run"??
What religion are you?
Should I?
Vi or emacs?
Worse is better. vi and emacs have had a very successful competetion in this.
Mac users: all gay?
Yes. Or they work in the printing industry.
How do you feel about abortion?
Got legistlation, Americans?
Which U.S. presidential candidate do you support?
No one asks me.
Was the war in Iraq justified?
Can a war be justified?
Since you can find organs using the Internet, the natural extension to this is:
Mr. Jo Mbie needs BRAIIINSS!! www.JoMbieNeedsBrains.com
Gaurdain. 100-kg object or 100 kg object, not "100kg object". Acceleration isn't measured in velocity units (mm/s). What does it mean if something has "increased its velocity by hundredemphhh"?
The cost of your conspiracy is a bit too high: NASA's shuttle program was suspended.
Al Gore is on Apple's board of directors? That's only fair, because Apple invented computers and Gore invented the Internet!
"Given our information overload, it's easy to miss the most significant kernels of news."
You've just described Slashdot. It's a miracle that this bit of actually interesting news got thru. Most of Slashdot "content" is links to intellectually inbred programmer geeks' "news" about very small increments in development.
"Dan Kaminsky Suggests Having Fun with DNS". (...) I wonder when someone messages in that in their school/city/country/homeworld the letters "DNS" stand for Darn Naughty Schoolgirls or something similar. It'd be interesting at least.
In an Unix system, the porn stash can be kept in your home directory, which is *actually* safe.
Joking aside, what you can do with Windows is only what Microsoft and its evil minions want you to do. They pretend they know what you want to do, but they don't. They just write hollow shells that look nice but don't do anything useful. Ever tried formatting real math equations with anything Microsoft/WYSIWYG?
Mrs. Piia-Noora Kauppi is the only Finnish MEP that protested against the attempts at strong-arm the patent directive to force. FFII reported this. She has also held a speech at a Linux convention.
Kauppi belongs to the National Coalition, a right-wing party in Finland that favors the rights of enterpreneurs, especially the small enterpreneurs. With excessive power, big corporations are just as bad as a Communist government. (This opinion by Sirpa Pietikäinen, another MEP of the Coalition.)
Software patents would harm small enterpreneurs and freedom, so the right-wing party can't be in favor of them. So, the Socialists or Greens don't represent your opinion against software patents. Remember that one of the key Finnish supporters of software patents has been Erkki Liikanen, a member of the European Commission, who is a Social Democrat!
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Toisin sanoen: Ainoa softapatentteja voimakkaasti vastustanut euroedustaja on Piia-Noora Kauppi. Kokoomuslaisena Kauppi ei missään nimessä voi kannattaa isojen firmojen mahdollisuutta jyrätä pienyrittäjiä. Sosiaalidemokraatti Erkki Liikanenhan on kannattanut softapatentteja.
Ks. lehdistötiedote.
(the mandatory self-evaluation: +5 Informative)
Another interesting bug I've found is that QBasic doesn't reproduce a zero (0) when it's placed as a first character in a STRING variable. I noticed this when I created strings like "020113". If accessed, it'd see that as "20113", so the following operations were borken.
I'd strongly discourage against introducing any of those poor excuses of programming languages of the Basic family. They were abandoned (only exception Microsoft, "yesterday's computing, tomorrow".) for a reason. Basic teaches that programming is all about intellectual masturbation using variables and flow control statements. If you want to show programming, use Java (or Ruby) to introduce object typing, so she sees that programming is about modelling the real world and helping people to arrange things. Basic will introduce unhealthy intellectually inbred manners and concepts that are hard to root out later.
All 20 Bushes are recognized correctly. The only anomaly is a repeated recognition of one face; the system sees two faces at the same location. But on the other hand, only one chimpanzee face of 20 is recognized in full and one by its eyes. In 15 of the 19 chimpanzees, the system sees no face at all. The remaining two chimpanzees show a false positive.
In a related question:
What do programs written by Microsoft do with the API? Have you noticed any strange behaviors, like unexplainable system calls exchanged?
I'd want to see behind the "dashboard", though I don't believe that Microsoft's programs aren't anything else but shiny dashboards.
Answer: diffusion.
How can smoke then go to the atmosphere, when it's not even gaseous but dead SOLID? Similarly you could claim you can't mix mud and water because mud is heavier than water.
The thing about fluoridated hydrocarbons is that under ultraviolet light they decompose and start to destroy random molecules, one of them ozone. They're a very efficient catalyst for ozone decomposition. It's been estimated that one mole of CFC can catalyze 100000 moles of ozone decomposition reactions until it settles down.
In this respect, it is different from, say, methane and CO2: one mole of methane corresponds exactly to one mole of methane pollution effects. One mole of CFC corresponds to 100000 moles of destruction. That's why even small amounts, like leaking from fridges, can be significant.
Ammonia, on the other hand, is a plant nutrient.
"Computer does something actually useful"
The reason is not the terrorist attack. The reason is called "Bush".
No wonder science is declining when it's easiest to get funds to craft new overblown rocks and wooden spears.
The traditionally best known areas of U.S. dominance in science are: fighter plane and "nucular" arms research. That is, killing people. Space flight and aeronautics, nuclear technology and supercomputing are the areas which did develop significantly because of the American need to blow shit up. There's no Soviet Union anymore to justify this. Those days are now over.
Bush is trying to avoid this by staging wars.
Another problem is the Bushist notion that caring for the environment and developing new technology would be mutually exclusive. These days are over, too. Today, making technology environmentally friendly boosts development (which is NOT the same as economic growth). Europeans have been constructing safer and more efficient cars while USA has fallen to the bigger-is-better SUV craze.
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hahaha... and he thought I was kidding
It seems we're approaching another kind of "technology singularity" in the cryptology arms race: trust is reduced back into the human. In the stone age, trust was based only on humans, because all communications were conducted in interpersonal meetings. Now, with all this measure and countermeasure, we've gone thru a full circle: trust is in the human, not in technology.
On the other hand, the curl was nonzero: there was a net privacy and distance increment when integrating around the full circle. That is, for secure communication, meeting is not necessary. The rest of this "development" is not real development but measure and countermeasure.
>Interpolate for 100,000,
Extrapolate, not interpolate. We'd need a comment from someone who manages >100000 machines to "interpolate". Interpolation means you evaluate between two or more known data points. Here you're using just one point, and that's always extrapolation.
"I pass by their cages every time I go to my cage there."
Does anyone else find this funny?
OK, offtopic, but let's avoid one common misunderstanding. Flight of airplanes is based on the Coanda effect, which was found by Henri Coanda, the inventor and builder of the first jet airplane. Even if the Wright brothers could put this effect into use, they didn't understand it.
See: A Physical Description of Lift
So, find another example.
This is not new. The service by Sulake Labs Oy, Habbo Hotel has already achieved some popularity by selling "virtual furniture" to a game which is like Sim with bad graphics and a weak chat system. The furniture is paid by sending a SMS text message, so the spent money is charged in the phone bill. The users are usually kids, who can spend a terrible amount of money without realizing it. It is available in English: Habbo Hotel
Notice that the conjencture "any significant number - other than 0 - is between 0 and 1" is unfalsifiable, because if the number is not between 0 and 1, its _reciprocal_ is!
For example, the continued fraction of pi shows no obvious patterns, but 4(1/pi) has.
The problem is the question: do we accept the "significance" if the number is not in 0-1? If we don't accept, it is an "inverse Texas sharpshooter fallacy". The "Texas sharpshooter" shoots into the wall of a barn and then draws a target around the position where most of the bullets hit. We name a target (0-1) and blame the gunsights if they don't hit. (Blaming systematic precision errors for accuracy problems.) Like this: it is the _reciprocal_ of pi that is the significant number, not pi itself!
If a conjencture is unfalsifiable, it is meaningless. This conjencture is: we can always say the reciprocal is the significant number.