Like almost everyone else who has said "...is not possible" before you throughout history, you are wrong.
Suppose there are a finite number of idiomatic phrases, and database space is cheap enough to be effectively free.
Someone could compile a database of all idiomatic phrases and simply map between them in any two languages.
I think the real reason translation hasn't taken off yet is because people keep trying to come up wiht better algorithms, when what they really need is a moderately-sophisticated algorithm and a fantastically large database. The algorithm would just serve the purpose of being able to generalize parts of some of the idiomatic phrases so that the database is kept to a managable size.
I can understand why you would want to think translation is not possible, as you have been paid to do translation. But I am confident that cheap databases will be the answer to the problem.
No CA can be 100% sure you are who you say you are. But there are things they can do to increase their confidence in your identity. Doing these things costs more money of them (and so, of you, the SSL site owner).
It sounds like Verisign wants to use color codes to demonstrate SSL site users how confident Verisign is in the identitiy of the certificate holder.
Have you read Chaucer? That man went senile before he ever started writing! Only a mad man would invent an entire language for the sole purpose of torturing future generations of high school students.
And you are right, as social animals, evolution would work on us to the point that we could contribute to our children's reproductive success. That must be why my friend's mom is always getting on her to get married...
However, the evolutionary pressure to get old can't have had nearly as much impact as the pressure to survive to 20-something.
You just predicted the near-term destruction of the US stock market. That is one hell of a claim. Do any economists, professional weath managers, or others with more credibility than "random/. guy" feel that the impact of one generation's retirement will destroy the stock market?
Me: I would rather have a larger salary. This enables me to buy lots of stock--leveraged. I expect to not have to work AT ALL by middle age. That is certainly worth sacraficing a few weeks of vacation per year. At 25, I'm jealous of my european coworkers because they seem to be on vacation one-out-of-five times I call them. But they will be jealous of me in 15 years, when I'm on permenant vacation and they have to keep working to live comfortably!
That depends on many things, including the algorithm itself, its configuration, and the type of input.
If you are interested, I encourage you to write a script that uncompresses and recompresses an audio file many times using lossy codes. Please publish your results.
Hey, don't defend yourself. Arrogance is all part of being an engineer. I'm the same way. But I've been made a fool by speculating about bio in the presence of bio majors, so I've learned that particular lesson. That doesn't stop me from speculating wildly about other topics I am unqualified to discuss:-)
Well, as you walk the "softness" scale from physics > chemistry > microbio > bio > psychology > sociology/econ/pol.sci, I would say that microbio and bio, since the development of modern gene theory, fall right on the border between the physical and the soft sciences. I still maintain my disdain for the real soft sciences, like psychology. I do recognize, however, that psych has recently started using actual statistical science properly. Fewer BS artists can make careers in psych because of this, but the problem is not yet solved. At least biologists no longer group genetically different animals into the same categories just because they look similar.../software engineer//all-around science junkie
That's a great idea! They could encrypt the passwords with a password, then store that password in plain text on the hard drive. Wait, no. They could encrypt the passwords with a password, then encrypt that password with another password, and store that password in plain text on the hard drive. Wait, no. They could encrypt the passwords with a password, then encrypt that password with another password, then encrypt that password with yet another password, and store that password in plain text on the hard drive. Wait, no. They could...
What you want is obfuscation, not encryption. And obfuscation is very easily defeated when implemented using open source software.
The doctors don't have any explanation for *why* Scott's muscles are paralysed.
Is that a meaningful qustion? "Why aren't our muscles paralyzed" seems like an equally meaningful question in an old man. Evolution only designs us to get to reproductive age. After that, we're running out of spec. Garbage-in, garbage-out mode, if you will. If age > 25, jump to random memory location and start executing...
Wow. That is a great example of engineer arrogance.
Listen, AI teaches you next to nothing about biology. Seriously.
MAYBE if you were totally ignorant of how evolution works, you might learn a tiny tiny bit from genetic algorithms. But that's it. I know lots of CS people and some Bio people, and I know not to pretend to understand Bio based on my CS course work.
Is there any reason to care about Fedora now that we have CentOS?
Also, I spent the day mapping configurations between Debian and RHEL. It was not fun.
Could someone please, pretty please, come up with some kind of XML file to abstract everything commonly found in a linux/etc, then write conversion tools for each OS to move from XML to/etc files?
Then we could have one configuration tool for the XML file, instead of having to use hundreds of tools (system-config-foobar, dselect reconfigure foobar) or learn hundreds of config file parsing languages.
99% of configurations done in/etc/ are simple concepts that should not require looking up some random guy's BNF.
We aren't writing in hex. We are writing in decimal. "Ten" is a decimal word. "Kilo" is also a decimal word. You are correct in saying that "decimal" is a context. But, more practically, I was addressing the idea that 10=12 depending on the industry. That's whack, and some people seem to like that manner of whackedness.
The natural number 10 is 10 regardless of context.
I agree with a previous poster. European countries that constitutionally ban "hate speech" should never be ranked higher than the US. Even if we have implementation problems right now, our fundamental, constituational freedoms are far better than much of europe. Or, to quote South Park, "I'll sue you IN ENGLAND!!!"
No. Numbers do not mean different things depending on context. That is a terrible idea and and anyone who thinks that is a good thing should be shot.
kilo = 1000. universally.
how stupid would it be to say ten = 10, except when we are talking about industry X, then ten = 12? terribly stupid. kilo = 1000, kibi = 1024. if you hate the word kibi, then just write 1024. end of story. no context mystery. no ambiguity.
(The SI guys can take a hike. The computer industry has been using kilo, mega, etc for powers-of-two since they got away from decimal computers almost 50 years ago now. It was the disk drive marketing guys who started pre-empting that so that they could advertise their eg 95.37 MB drives as 100 MB.)
It's people like you who cause entire space missions to fail. "Mega" has meant a power of TEN for much longer than "the computer industry." Besides, computers are used outside the computer industry these days.
Get with the times an learn the difference between Mi M Ki K Gi G B b etc..
Any decent engineer would loathe ambiguity. You think "mega" should mean different things depending on context? What are you, a Perl programmer?!? DEMONS BE GONE!!
I was about to explain the basics of data compression to you. But this is slashdot. You shouldn't be that stupid. Go do an internet search for "lossy compression." Find out what happens when you take the output of one lossy-compressed piece of data, then compress it again with a different lossy-compression algorithm.
Data free? Ha! The data presented was that the parent's reasoning is flawed, misleading, and unscientific. This data was proven based on the axiom of the definition of the scientific method, and the basic rules of logic.
I made no claim as to what my philosophical position on weapon ownership is. I only stated that you are full of BS. Your reply ("you wouldn't believe them") seems to make more unfounded assumptions. Surprise to you: I own guns.
The only agenda I have is that public policy should be based on science and reason, not pseudoscience and dogma. So you can take your truthiness and shove it. Has any business association fed you the propper propagand to retort that?
What's interesting to note is that areas which respect the second amendment have less murders than areas with governments that ignore the Constitution and ban all guns.
Wow. You completely fail at grasping even the basics of the scientific method.
Your train-wreck of a thought process could only be used as reasoning for anything if a statistically significant number of areas were selected, and half of them (randomly selected) were subjected to a gun ban. That would be the starting point.
Your statistic is more than meaningless. High-crime areas are probably much more likely to take on gun bans than low-crime areas.
Thanks for playing. Please return to your 6th grade science class.
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Moving in to homes destroyed the subtlety and beauty of cave-dwelling. I don't see you living in a cafe.
Like almost everyone else who has said "...is not possible" before you throughout history, you are wrong.
Suppose there are a finite number of idiomatic phrases, and database space is cheap enough to be effectively free.
Someone could compile a database of all idiomatic phrases and simply map between them in any two languages.
I think the real reason translation hasn't taken off yet is because people keep trying to come up wiht better algorithms, when what they really need is a moderately-sophisticated algorithm and a fantastically large database. The algorithm would just serve the purpose of being able to generalize parts of some of the idiomatic phrases so that the database is kept to a managable size.
I can understand why you would want to think translation is not possible, as you have been paid to do translation. But I am confident that cheap databases will be the answer to the problem.
It sounds to me like you all have it wrong.
No CA can be 100% sure you are who you say you are. But there are things they can do to increase their confidence in your identity. Doing these things costs more money of them (and so, of you, the SSL site owner).
It sounds like Verisign wants to use color codes to demonstrate SSL site users how confident Verisign is in the identitiy of the certificate holder.
I think this is a fantastic idea.
Have you read Chaucer? That man went senile before he ever started writing! Only a mad man would invent an entire language for the sole purpose of torturing future generations of high school students.
And you are right, as social animals, evolution would work on us to the point that we could contribute to our children's reproductive success. That must be why my friend's mom is always getting on her to get married...
However, the evolutionary pressure to get old can't have had nearly as much impact as the pressure to survive to 20-something.
Research seems to suggest that you will change your mind once you are 50.
You just predicted the near-term destruction of the US stock market. That is one hell of a claim. Do any economists, professional weath managers, or others with more credibility than "random /. guy" feel that the impact of one generation's retirement will destroy the stock market?
Me: I would rather have a larger salary. This enables me to buy lots of stock--leveraged. I expect to not have to work AT ALL by middle age. That is certainly worth sacraficing a few weeks of vacation per year. At 25, I'm jealous of my european coworkers because they seem to be on vacation one-out-of-five times I call them. But they will be jealous of me in 15 years, when I'm on permenant vacation and they have to keep working to live comfortably!
That depends on many things, including the algorithm itself, its configuration, and the type of input.
If you are interested, I encourage you to write a script that uncompresses and recompresses an audio file many times using lossy codes. Please publish your results.
Hey, don't defend yourself. Arrogance is all part of being an engineer. I'm the same way. But I've been made a fool by speculating about bio in the presence of bio majors, so I've learned that particular lesson. That doesn't stop me from speculating wildly about other topics I am unqualified to discuss :-)
haha. ok. you win.
Well, as you walk the "softness" scale from physics > chemistry > microbio > bio > psychology > sociology/econ/pol.sci, I would say that microbio and bio, since the development of modern gene theory, fall right on the border between the physical and the soft sciences. I still maintain my disdain for the real soft sciences, like psychology. I do recognize, however, that psych has recently started using actual statistical science properly. Fewer BS artists can make careers in psych because of this, but the problem is not yet solved. At least biologists no longer group genetically different animals into the same categories just because they look similar... /software engineer //all-around science junkie
That's a great idea! They could encrypt the passwords with a password, then store that password in plain text on the hard drive. Wait, no. They could encrypt the passwords with a password, then encrypt that password with another password, and store that password in plain text on the hard drive. Wait, no. They could encrypt the passwords with a password, then encrypt that password with another password, then encrypt that password with yet another password, and store that password in plain text on the hard drive. Wait, no. They could...
What you want is obfuscation, not encryption. And obfuscation is very easily defeated when implemented using open source software.
Is that a meaningful qustion? "Why aren't our muscles paralyzed" seems like an equally meaningful question in an old man. Evolution only designs us to get to reproductive age. After that, we're running out of spec. Garbage-in, garbage-out mode, if you will. If age > 25, jump to random memory location and start executing...
Wow. That is a great example of engineer arrogance.
Listen, AI teaches you next to nothing about biology. Seriously.
MAYBE if you were totally ignorant of how evolution works, you might learn a tiny tiny bit from genetic algorithms. But that's it. I know lots of CS people and some Bio people, and I know not to pretend to understand Bio based on my CS course work.
Historical truth without references isn't worth much.
That is unreal. Do you know what kicked it all off? The only thing I've ever had asked crossing a boarder is what I was doing in the other country.
Is there any reason to care about Fedora now that we have CentOS?
/etc, then write conversion tools for each OS to move from XML to /etc files?
/etc/ are simple concepts that should not require looking up some random guy's BNF.
Also, I spent the day mapping configurations between Debian and RHEL. It was not fun.
Could someone please, pretty please, come up with some kind of XML file to abstract everything commonly found in a linux
Then we could have one configuration tool for the XML file, instead of having to use hundreds of tools (system-config-foobar, dselect reconfigure foobar) or learn hundreds of config file parsing languages.
99% of configurations done in
We aren't writing in hex. We are writing in decimal. "Ten" is a decimal word. "Kilo" is also a decimal word. You are correct in saying that "decimal" is a context. But, more practically, I was addressing the idea that 10=12 depending on the industry. That's whack, and some people seem to like that manner of whackedness.
The natural number 10 is 10 regardless of context.
I agree with a previous poster. European countries that constitutionally ban "hate speech" should never be ranked higher than the US. Even if we have implementation problems right now, our fundamental, constituational freedoms are far better than much of europe. Or, to quote South Park, "I'll sue you IN ENGLAND!!!"
No. Numbers do not mean different things depending on context. That is a terrible idea and and anyone who thinks that is a good thing should be shot.
kilo = 1000. universally.
how stupid would it be to say ten = 10, except when we are talking about industry X, then ten = 12? terribly stupid. kilo = 1000, kibi = 1024. if you hate the word kibi, then just write 1024. end of story. no context mystery. no ambiguity.
It's people like you who cause entire space missions to fail. "Mega" has meant a power of TEN for much longer than "the computer industry." Besides, computers are used outside the computer industry these days.
Get with the times an learn the difference between Mi M Ki K Gi G B b etc..
Any decent engineer would loathe ambiguity. You think "mega" should mean different things depending on context? What are you, a Perl programmer?!? DEMONS BE GONE!!
So you are just explaining a quicker way to suck? It still sucks. But at least you realize that.
I was about to explain the basics of data compression to you. But this is slashdot. You shouldn't be that stupid. Go do an internet search for "lossy compression." Find out what happens when you take the output of one lossy-compressed piece of data, then compress it again with a different lossy-compression algorithm.
Data free? Ha! The data presented was that the parent's reasoning is flawed, misleading, and unscientific. This data was proven based on the axiom of the definition of the scientific method, and the basic rules of logic.
I made no claim as to what my philosophical position on weapon ownership is. I only stated that you are full of BS. Your reply ("you wouldn't believe them") seems to make more unfounded assumptions. Surprise to you: I own guns.
The only agenda I have is that public policy should be based on science and reason, not pseudoscience and dogma. So you can take your truthiness and shove it. Has any business association fed you the propper propagand to retort that?
Wow. You completely fail at grasping even the basics of the scientific method.
Your train-wreck of a thought process could only be used as reasoning for anything if a statistically significant number of areas were selected, and half of them (randomly selected) were subjected to a gun ban. That would be the starting point.
Your statistic is more than meaningless. High-crime areas are probably much more likely to take on gun bans than low-crime areas.
Thanks for playing. Please return to your 6th grade science class.