IMHO, these are polysemic rather than homonymous, because they can all be traced back to the same origin with little imagination. Most or your examples are in the category "quick and dirty solution" that derives from the method of hacking down a tree.
Homonyms, OTOH, are words that happen to share the spelling/pronunciation even if they come from different origins. In a way, polysemy is a divergence and homonymy a convergence in the evolution of a language.
We need a new name for these mass surveillance devices, there's nothing "smart" about them. I'd also like another name for pocketable networked computers outside that sheepcosystem (like the N900 could have been). Then again, what did I expect after the age of where "personal" computing meant Windows...
Welcome to the world of users vs. developers. I recently installed Android in a VM so I can publish the content I produce on a real OS. I also need to use an "app" (things sure have developed from from the olden decades of "application program") for 2FA, because obviously smartphones and/or Chrome are the best way to keep things secure online.
Either that, or it's huge and power-hungry because of all those separately packaged transistors. (Like Honest Bender's Dating Service, some things can be both discrete and discreet.)
Situation: There are 14 competing USB standards.
-Ridiculous! We need to develope one "Universal USB" standard that covers everyone's use cases.
-Yeah!
(Soon:) Situation: There are 15 competing USB standards.
(I thought USB was ridiculously non-universal back when 3.0 had been released. I don't even have any devices for type C.)
And so many databases have no provision for middle name, only first name and initial.
IMHO, a middle-name field doesn't make sense universally, because a lot of people have more than 2 given names. Many people also have only one given name, but some systems might expect something for the middle field anyway. (Cf. address forms that require state/province even for countries that don't have them.)
For enough flexibility, the system should allow you to write all given names in the first-name field, including reasonable punctuation such as hyphens for compound names and periods for initials. Of course, a lot of systems don't allow this, presumably for the fear of Little Bobby Tables.
If gamers really paid for the hardware, they should have all the rights to their property, including the ability to install their own OS. Linux on PS3 turned out a farce and only managed to highlight the fact that the HW is sponsored by game prices.
..the fastest supercomputer is running a Finnish-born OS. So I don't care about the nationality of whoever assembled the machine, Finland wins anyway;)
BTW, a fun detail from the article that should really have been included in the summary:
James Hack, director of ORNL's National Center for Computational Sciences
You can share your open source code in a number of places, let's call that number N. If you also share it on Github, you get N+1. It doesn't make your code less open, but it might give you a bit more audience. If MICROS~1 wants to steal your code, they are free (as in they can afford all the lawyers they want) to do it whether or not you use Github.
To me, Github is basically Facebook for computer geeks. We share our updates to maintain some kind of a social presence, but the real work happens elsewhere.
IRC is even older, about 30 years now, and it had the "#" prefix for topics (well, actually channels which are more like discussion boards per each topic, but basically the same idea). Kids these days...
'The name "Uber" is a reference to the common (and somewhat colloquial) word "uber", meaning "topmost" or "super", and having its origins in the German word über, meaning "above".' (quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...)
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Seems like human judgement will always be necessary for application of "fuzzy" rules.
Reminds me of a joke about the Turing test: if it can explain the offside rule consistently, it's a computer.
I'll accept ISAC as an acronym, but ISCA, not so much (though they both are initialisms and abbreviations).
I've had it with these motherfucking eels on this motherfucking hovercraft!
It's as if fungus was the core of the Standard Model. And tartigrades were the conduit of the universe.
The tardigrade count is strong in this one.
OK, I get it that you're an Nvidia guy, but no need to rub it in my face.
Spengler is such a prick.
How can you say such a thing about the lead scientist of Ghostbusters?
IMHO, these are polysemic rather than homonymous, because they can all be traced back to the same origin with little imagination. Most or your examples are in the category "quick and dirty solution" that derives from the method of hacking down a tree.
Homonyms, OTOH, are words that happen to share the spelling/pronunciation even if they come from different origins. In a way, polysemy is a divergence and homonymy a convergence in the evolution of a language.
Clinton had her own email server in her bathroom. Comey probably used gmail/aol/yahoo. There's a difference.
It's the difference between a true geek and a luser. Who here doesn't have a server in every room?
We need a new name for these mass surveillance devices, there's nothing "smart" about them. I'd also like another name for pocketable networked computers outside that sheepcosystem (like the N900 could have been). Then again, what did I expect after the age of where "personal" computing meant Windows...
Welcome to the world of users vs. developers. I recently installed Android in a VM so I can publish the content I produce on a real OS. I also need to use an "app" (things sure have developed from from the olden decades of "application program") for 2FA, because obviously smartphones and/or Chrome are the best way to keep things secure online.
Storage is a big part of the solution.
A gas turbine can spin when demand is high, and slow down when it is low.
Wind turbines don't work that way. They spin when the wind blows.
FTFY.
Either that, or it's huge and power-hungry because of all those separately packaged transistors. (Like Honest Bender's Dating Service, some things can be both discrete and discreet.)
Situation: There are 14 competing USB standards.
-Ridiculous! We need to develope one "Universal USB" standard that covers everyone's use cases.
-Yeah!
(Soon:) Situation: There are 15 competing USB standards.
(I thought USB was ridiculously non-universal back when 3.0 had been released. I don't even have any devices for type C.)
https://xkcd.com/927/
And so many databases have no provision for middle name, only first name and initial.
IMHO, a middle-name field doesn't make sense universally, because a lot of people have more than 2 given names. Many people also have only one given name, but some systems might expect something for the middle field anyway. (Cf. address forms that require state/province even for countries that don't have them.)
For enough flexibility, the system should allow you to write all given names in the first-name field, including reasonable punctuation such as hyphens for compound names and periods for initials. Of course, a lot of systems don't allow this, presumably for the fear of Little Bobby Tables.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yeah, but does it support Meltdown like Intel?
It might. Depends on the cooling setup.
If gamers really paid for the hardware, they should have all the rights to their property, including the ability to install their own OS. Linux on PS3 turned out a farce and only managed to highlight the fact that the HW is sponsored by game prices.
BTW, a fun detail from the article that should really have been included in the summary:
James Hack, director of ORNL's National Center for Computational Sciences
Only for male physicists, though. (wiki for those not in the know)
Real men wouldn't consider anything less than galactic leadership.
Linux for the most part has been rather consistent.
I miss consist[ae]nt spelling.
You can share your open source code in a number of places, let's call that number N. If you also share it on Github, you get N+1. It doesn't make your code less open, but it might give you a bit more audience. If MICROS~1 wants to steal your code, they are free (as in they can afford all the lawyers they want) to do it whether or not you use Github.
To me, Github is basically Facebook for computer geeks. We share our updates to maintain some kind of a social presence, but the real work happens elsewhere.
IRC is even older, about 30 years now, and it had the "#" prefix for topics (well, actually channels which are more like discussion boards per each topic, but basically the same idea). Kids these days...
'The name "Uber" is a reference to the common (and somewhat colloquial) word "uber", meaning "topmost" or "super", and having its origins in the German word über, meaning "above".' (quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...)