I would not call it an artificial language. Like all languages it is evolving. The Philippines is a young and newly industrialised nation of approximately 7200 islands. There are many clans and ethnic groups, that, until fairly did not see themselves as part of a nation, but traded regularly with their neighbours. This allowed many separate languages and dialects to evolve, however they were nearly all part of the Austronesian family of languages, sharing grammatical structure and vocabulary. An exception is Chavacano, which is a Spanish dialect, but still uses Austronesian language grammatical and lexical conventions.
There were in fact four Spanish creoles labelled as Chavacano, but one is now extinct and two are dying out, with only Zamboangueño remaining in widespread use. Interestingly, the Cavite branch of Chavacano is said to have emerged almost 'spontaneously', when mercenaries from various parts of the world were planted on the island of Cavite to defend Manila from the Chinese pirate Limahong.
President Quezon successfully attempted to introduce a purely Austronesian family language as the national language when the country gained independence from colonising forces at the end of world war two. Tagalog, the language of the Tagalog clan was chosen as since it was spoken widely around Manila, with two dialects merging into the main branch. Modern Tagalog continues to evolve, surely due to the fact that it is now spoken nation-wide as well as by the Philippines diaspora.
Indeed. Which is funny because JS Bach's music is some of the most mathematical and algorithmic. He once presented a series of Canons to his patron in puzzle form to be cracked. One would harmonise as in a typical Canon, by playing the initial melody over the top of the original, a few bars later. In another, by turning the score upside down.
Bach also lived in a time when the mathematics of music was evolving. The notes in a musical scale follow simple mathematical ratios. For example an octave is 2/1, that is, double the frequency, and you get the same note, an octave higher. A perfect fifth, that is G to the note C is 3/2, a perfect 4th or 'F' relative to C is 4 over 3. The notes of a major or minor scale based on these ratios will harmonise beautifully - just arrange the 7 modes into triads. Such scales have been used since prehistoric times, and were not, in fact, limited to our species - a perfectly tuned Neanderthal bone flute was found. (I Read about that here on Slashdot years ago).
So perfect mathematical ratios eh? Not quite. Major problems happen when you add the state of the art compositional tool of the day - otherwise known as a piano keyboard. If you go around the circle of 5ths, for each of the musical keys, you'll land back where you started. However, using a 'just' perfect 5th, that is, 3 over 2 means you'll land slightly askew of where you started. (The amount relates to the golden ratio). In Bach's day, there were various compromises for this called 'temperaments' - and each musical key had a certain 'colour' that could be exploited. The ones closest in the circle of fifths to the 'natural' key sounded best in tune. At the opposite side it sounded horrible, though that might have been just what Translyvanian pipe organists were after
Anyway, along came the Well Tempered Clavier - that is, keeping a pure musical octave, then dividing the musical scale into 12 equally spaced semi-tones, using the 12th root of 2. Now each musical key was equally in tune (but also equally out of tune), which afforded the possibility to a) Compose in many different keys b) Use a dominant 7th chord as a launching pad to switch to a new key. Ironically though, a dominant 7th chord in equal temperament sounds grating, while in just intonation it sounds very smooth.
Anyway, AI will probably evolve music in new directions to suit itself, while keeping us zombie masses enslaved with top 40 pop crap.
Malagasy is an interesting language for me. It is Austronesian, from the same family as Malaysian, Indonesian, Filipino, and made its way all the way to Madagascar, off the East coast of Africa.
Speaking of which, I just looked up the Filipino (Tagalog) word for tea, and it is 'tsaa', sounds like Cha . . and the Philippines is a sea-faring (not silk road) nation - the Manila galleons would trade spices between Manila or Cebu and Acupulco, Mexico. So we have yet another exception to the generalisation.
Disgusting as it sounds, the use of Maggot Therapy has recommenced for the treatment of necrosis. Leeches are being used in plastic surgery. Phages and other potions are being employed for resistant bacterial infections.
And if the question was the topic of a Slashdot post, according to Betteridge Law of Headlines the answer would still be no, just as it was for the last 20 Slashdot posts that did end with a question mark.
Telegram does have p2p mode, where chats are initiated using a diffie-helman key exchange. However yes, the central server is still required to manage the contact list, session addresses, etc. It is considered to be quite secure, in the second (not the first) tier above above Skype, WeChat, Messenger, WhatsApp and others others. Interesting about Tox, thanks for the info!
You could try Telegram. It is made by the people behind vkontakte - the Russian Facebook knock-off, which might not sound any more encouraging, however it isopen source not necessary to sign up with one to use the other. There are numerous official and third-party clients for various platforms, along with two open-source adapters to plug bridge to Facebook Messenger - not everyone would need to migrate at once.
I've been spending new year in a poor area of a developing country - the Philippines - visiting family. Although it is illegal for super-markets to use plastic bags. The hawker stores here sell everything in little plastic sachets. Eg if someone wants to wash their hair, they buy a sachet of shampoo, then three days later come back for another one. Ditto for toothpaste, cups of noodles. Actually just about everything.
When there's no trash collection service, the rate of pile-up is alarming. Horrible wrappers everywhere. They're usually swept up and burned, which damn well stinks and certainly isn't healthy.
I was just day-dreaming about a way to incentivise hawkers to buy in bulk and use bio-degradable wrapping. While googling around I found out why the Manila Folder was called as such - originally they were made from Manila Hemp, a type of fiber obtained from Musa Textalis, which is related to edible bananas. In the meantime the humble banana leaf makes an excellent wrapper.
The details are coming back to me now. It wasn't about a trading name, but domain name registration. The precedent was about registration of a famous person's domain name, given that the domain was available and there was no trademark on the name. The person in question legally appealed, and the domain name registration was ruled invalid. I still can't find the details, but found something similar for USA law regarding domain names:
Additionally, U.S. Federal Law 15 U.S.C. 1125(d), (the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, or the ACPA) protects against the registration, use or trafficking in, of any domain name with a bad faith intent to profit from a trademark (or service mark) that is protected under federal law. However, federal law often will not protect a personal name as a trademark unless the personal name has acquired distinctiveness (think “become well known by the public”).
Group living in all species is dependent on tolerance of other group members. In crab-eating macaques, successful social group living maintains postconflict resolution must occur. Usually, less dominant individuals lose to a higher-ranking individual when conflict arises. After the conflict has taken place, lower-ranking individuals tend to fear the winner of the conflict to a greater degree. In one study, this was seen by the ability to drink water together. Postconflict observations showed a staggered time between when the dominant individual begins to drink and the subordinate. Long-term studies reveal the gap in drinking time closes as the conflict moves further into the past. -- Long-tailed Macaques
tldr; All individuals depend on the group, higher ranking individuals, whose position in the group is more secure, can afford to be assholes.
It is now particularly common in the middle-east despite that mosquitos aren't much of a problem there. People evolved the trait then brought it with them to where it was no longer especially useful. A very effective prophylaxis against Malaria in East Africa was to encourage people to sleep with a mosquito net.
Fair points, but history shows that regulating first has been shown to drive innovation in the desired direction.
Case in point Southern California. It hat an electric, mass transit public transport system. When these were privatised, General Motors Corporation bought in, and started to steadily reduce the service, like a frog in hot water. At the same time emotive advertising that implored people to write to their commissioner and demand more roads "for the children". A solid strategy to sell more motor vehicles.
Los Angeles became one of the smoggiest cities in the world. The government set vehicle emission regulations, to be met by a set date. As these were met they became steadily more stringent. (Of course at one point the test was fudged rather than actual innovation, but that's another story)
The rationale is that there are economic externalities. Having established that, the argument goes that if Europe and USA did not absorb the cost of these externalities, then why should other nations?
Will be a cat and mouse race. Face recognition software, for example in the new iOS devices, uses the same technique - GANS - as Nvidia did here to train their network.
Latest research seems to indicate that the saturated fat in animal products, especially naturally raised and grass- as opposed to grain-fed, is quite healthy. Ancel Keys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancel_Keys) was responsible for promoting a high-fiber, mostly vegetable and whole grain diet. Folks are saying now that saturated fat from whole sources were - unnecessarily demonised due to a failure to do non-linear covariate regression analysis.
A reasonably low-fat diet consisting of whole and low GI foods is probably harmless, but a very low-fat diet, should certainly be avoided. They're needed for vitamin absorption, and in men, especially saturated fats for production of testosterone. Perhaps the declining sperm-count in western men is because of the focus over the last 50 years on a low-fat diet.
Saturated fat aside, unfortunately Ancel Keys best intentions to encourage a whole-food diet went astray, with most of us now subsisting on processed foods made with high-fructose corn syrup!
tldr; fat can be healthy. Of course it is calorie dense, but a good option is to reduce carbs, especially high GI carbs either regularly whenever a high fat meal is consumed. Definitely avoid processed and hydrogenated oils though (again processed foods) - they contain the evil cancer causing trans fats.
Something I noticed - pork in my birth country, Australia, is already low fat, due to selective breeding. Here in Asia it is very fatty - people seem to prefer that.
Deflationary means that the prices of goods and services go down because the relative value of the money goes up, based on scarcity. Just like it did before the great depression, when USA had a gold-backed currency.
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I would not call it an artificial language. Like all languages it is evolving. The Philippines is a young and newly industrialised nation of approximately 7200 islands. There are many clans and ethnic groups, that, until fairly did not see themselves as part of a nation, but traded regularly with their neighbours. This allowed many separate languages and dialects to evolve, however they were nearly all part of the Austronesian family of languages, sharing grammatical structure and vocabulary. An exception is Chavacano, which is a Spanish dialect, but still uses Austronesian language grammatical and lexical conventions.
There were in fact four Spanish creoles labelled as Chavacano, but one is now extinct and two are dying out, with only Zamboangueño remaining in widespread use. Interestingly, the Cavite branch of Chavacano is said to have emerged almost 'spontaneously', when mercenaries from various parts of the world were planted on the island of Cavite to defend Manila from the Chinese pirate Limahong.
President Quezon successfully attempted to introduce a purely Austronesian family language as the national language when the country gained independence from colonising forces at the end of world war two. Tagalog, the language of the Tagalog clan was chosen as since it was spoken widely around Manila, with two dialects merging into the main branch. Modern Tagalog continues to evolve, surely due to the fact that it is now spoken nation-wide as well as by the Philippines diaspora.
Indeed. Which is funny because JS Bach's music is some of the most mathematical and algorithmic. He once presented a series of Canons to his patron in puzzle form to be cracked. One would harmonise as in a typical Canon, by playing the initial melody over the top of the original, a few bars later. In another, by turning the score upside down.
Bach also lived in a time when the mathematics of music was evolving. The notes in a musical scale follow simple mathematical ratios. For example an octave is 2/1, that is, double the frequency, and you get the same note, an octave higher. A perfect fifth, that is G to the note C is 3/2, a perfect 4th or 'F' relative to C is 4 over 3. The notes of a major or minor scale based on these ratios will harmonise beautifully - just arrange the 7 modes into triads. Such scales have been used since prehistoric times, and were not, in fact, limited to our species - a perfectly tuned Neanderthal bone flute was found. (I Read about that here on Slashdot years ago).
So perfect mathematical ratios eh? Not quite. Major problems happen when you add the state of the art compositional tool of the day - otherwise known as a piano keyboard. If you go around the circle of 5ths, for each of the musical keys, you'll land back where you started. However, using a 'just' perfect 5th, that is, 3 over 2 means you'll land slightly askew of where you started. (The amount relates to the golden ratio). In Bach's day, there were various compromises for this called 'temperaments' - and each musical key had a certain 'colour' that could be exploited. The ones closest in the circle of fifths to the 'natural' key sounded best in tune. At the opposite side it sounded horrible, though that might have been just what Translyvanian pipe organists were after
Anyway, along came the Well Tempered Clavier - that is, keeping a pure musical octave, then dividing the musical scale into 12 equally spaced semi-tones, using the 12th root of 2. Now each musical key was equally in tune (but also equally out of tune), which afforded the possibility to a) Compose in many different keys b) Use a dominant 7th chord as a launching pad to switch to a new key. Ironically though, a dominant 7th chord in equal temperament sounds grating, while in just intonation it sounds very smooth.
Anyway, AI will probably evolve music in new directions to suit itself, while keeping us zombie masses enslaved with top 40 pop crap.
Malagasy is an interesting language for me. It is Austronesian, from the same family as Malaysian, Indonesian, Filipino, and made its way all the way to Madagascar, off the East coast of Africa.
Speaking of which, I just looked up the Filipino (Tagalog) word for tea, and it is 'tsaa', sounds like Cha . . and the Philippines is a sea-faring (not silk road) nation - the Manila galleons would trade spices between Manila or Cebu and Acupulco, Mexico. So we have yet another exception to the generalisation.
Wow, looks like someone hasn't had their coffee this morning.
This is undoubtably for 'security', not that it is a free market.
So that's why my barber says "the necrosis is setting in nicely" - always wondered what he meant.
Disgusting as it sounds, the use of Maggot Therapy has recommenced for the treatment of necrosis. Leeches are being used in plastic surgery. Phages and other potions are being employed for resistant bacterial infections.
No.
And if the question was the topic of a Slashdot post, according to Betteridge Law of Headlines the answer would still be no, just as it was for the last 20 Slashdot posts that did end with a question mark.
Telegram does have p2p mode, where chats are initiated using a diffie-helman key exchange. However yes, the central server is still required to manage the contact list, session addresses, etc. It is considered to be quite secure, in the second (not the first) tier above above Skype, WeChat, Messenger, WhatsApp and others others. Interesting about Tox, thanks for the info!
You could try Telegram. It is made by the people behind vkontakte - the Russian Facebook knock-off, which might not sound any more encouraging, however it isopen source not necessary to sign up with one to use the other. There are numerous official and third-party clients for various platforms, along with two open-source adapters to plug bridge to Facebook Messenger - not everyone would need to migrate at once.
Glad you found it interesting. Hey, there's evidence that Australia was a hemp colony (the sativa kind) too.
I've been spending new year in a poor area of a developing country - the Philippines - visiting family. Although it is illegal for super-markets to use plastic bags. The hawker stores here sell everything in little plastic sachets. Eg if someone wants to wash their hair, they buy a sachet of shampoo, then three days later come back for another one. Ditto for toothpaste, cups of noodles. Actually just about everything.
When there's no trash collection service, the rate of pile-up is alarming. Horrible wrappers everywhere. They're usually swept up and burned, which damn well stinks and certainly isn't healthy.
I was just day-dreaming about a way to incentivise hawkers to buy in bulk and use bio-degradable wrapping. While googling around I found out why the Manila Folder was called as such - originally they were made from Manila Hemp, a type of fiber obtained from Musa Textalis, which is related to edible bananas. In the meantime the humble banana leaf makes an excellent wrapper.
The details are coming back to me now. It wasn't about a trading name, but domain name registration. The precedent was about registration of a famous person's domain name, given that the domain was available and there was no trademark on the name. The person in question legally appealed, and the domain name registration was ruled invalid. I still can't find the details, but found something similar for USA law regarding domain names:
Additionally, U.S. Federal Law 15 U.S.C. 1125(d), (the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, or the ACPA) protects against the registration, use or trafficking in, of any domain name with a bad faith intent to profit from a trademark (or service mark) that is protected under federal law. However, federal law often will not protect a personal name as a trademark unless the personal name has acquired distinctiveness (think “become well known by the public”).
The person name must be already well known.
Pretty sure it is as you say in Australia and the USA - and that there was in fact a SlashDot story regarding the first precedent some years ago.
Group living in all species is dependent on tolerance of other group members. In crab-eating macaques, successful social group living maintains postconflict resolution must occur. Usually, less dominant individuals lose to a higher-ranking individual when conflict arises. After the conflict has taken place, lower-ranking individuals tend to fear the winner of the conflict to a greater degree. In one study, this was seen by the ability to drink water together. Postconflict observations showed a staggered time between when the dominant individual begins to drink and the subordinate. Long-term studies reveal the gap in drinking time closes as the conflict moves further into the past. -- Long-tailed Macaques
tldr; All individuals depend on the group, higher ranking individuals, whose position in the group is more secure, can afford to be assholes.
It is now particularly common in the middle-east despite that mosquitos aren't much of a problem there. People evolved the trait then brought it with them to where it was no longer especially useful. A very effective prophylaxis against Malaria in East Africa was to encourage people to sleep with a mosquito net.
Fair points, but history shows that regulating first has been shown to drive innovation in the desired direction.
Case in point Southern California. It hat an electric, mass transit public transport system. When these were privatised, General Motors Corporation bought in, and started to steadily reduce the service, like a frog in hot water. At the same time emotive advertising that implored people to write to their commissioner and demand more roads "for the children". A solid strategy to sell more motor vehicles.
Los Angeles became one of the smoggiest cities in the world. The government set vehicle emission regulations, to be met by a set date. As these were met they became steadily more stringent. (Of course at one point the test was fudged rather than actual innovation, but that's another story)
640K dollars ought to be enough for anyone.
Sounds more like the moon landing hoax to me.
The rationale is that there are economic externalities. Having established that, the argument goes that if Europe and USA did not absorb the cost of these externalities, then why should other nations?
Will be a cat and mouse race. Face recognition software, for example in the new iOS devices, uses the same technique - GANS - as Nvidia did here to train their network.
Latest research seems to indicate that the saturated fat in animal products, especially naturally raised and grass- as opposed to grain-fed, is quite healthy. Ancel Keys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancel_Keys) was responsible for promoting a high-fiber, mostly vegetable and whole grain diet. Folks are saying now that saturated fat from whole sources were - unnecessarily demonised due to a failure to do non-linear covariate regression analysis.
A reasonably low-fat diet consisting of whole and low GI foods is probably harmless, but a very low-fat diet, should certainly be avoided. They're needed for vitamin absorption, and in men, especially saturated fats for production of testosterone. Perhaps the declining sperm-count in western men is because of the focus over the last 50 years on a low-fat diet.
Saturated fat aside, unfortunately Ancel Keys best intentions to encourage a whole-food diet went astray, with most of us now subsisting on processed foods made with high-fructose corn syrup!
tldr; fat can be healthy. Of course it is calorie dense, but a good option is to reduce carbs, especially high GI carbs either regularly whenever a high fat meal is consumed. Definitely avoid processed and hydrogenated oils though (again processed foods) - they contain the evil cancer causing trans fats.
Something I noticed - pork in my birth country, Australia, is already low fat, due to selective breeding. Here in Asia it is very fatty - people seem to prefer that.
Deflationary means that the prices of goods and services go down because the relative value of the money goes up, based on scarcity. Just like it did before the great depression, when USA had a gold-backed currency.