I have worked on similar research before. You align corpora in multiple languages, and perform a series of steps regarding regular, natural usage of the language in translation.
The aim is multifold. Honestly, the primary aim is to acquire the data cheaply, since you hopefully won't have to pay annotators to do much.
The problem is finding large bodies of text that meet the criteria. The UN corpora would be excellent for this.
Yes, I did......and then I realized that even as a graduate student, if they had a 250 seat installation, I could afford to replace the whole thing.
Upgrading would probably get them the Windows licenses they need as well as a throw in.
Honestly, much of the time, the workers do need better desktops... but if it's an arms race to keep management in better machinery than the workers... the workers have to have shitty machines to prove the point. Lame.
Your company is apparently willing to incur the licensing costs of Windows, Windows applications, and this new app, but is unwilling to upgrade its desktops to hardware worth more than $10.
I think that your company is going to fold. You guys really need to figure out a lot more than how to obviate the need for an OS migration.
1) The community of "Linux," not the FSF or EFF, who have lawyers to defend themselves from what I'm about to say... 2) Are what will become the labor union for software. After all, developing free and open source software is the hallmark of labor unionization in the software industry... 3) And you bunch of hooligans already behave like mafiosos... let me just recap what a victim SCO has been... 4) You bunch of denial of service attack launching juevenile delinquents... 5) O'Gara is so cool... you jackasses had her fired from a publication called "LinuxWorld," when she made some specious claims about a Linux advocate... 6) You really should have let her do that, since, after all, you should be pumping funding into SCO's defense fund... 7) It was an immature act that just goes to show that you're a bunch of children, with no leadership... 8) See how I still haven't mentioned the FSF... now they won't mail me and complain. 9) Yes! I win! I get to dig on the Linux community, and I'll get a front page article on/. 10) Go meeeeeeee!!!
Unfortunately, I first saw this impulse in a dear old friend of mine a year or two before arriving here.
It really does turn my stomache to consider what a complete ass you must be to make a statement that implies that the upbringing of all residents of your country is inferior, in order to hope to make yourself sound intelligent.
Though I have seen it in American students here... honestly most people here are pretty straight about themselves, how they feel about others, and don't need to attack each other in such a manner.
I'm not going to say that graduate students are a social elite. For the most part, a social exchange with a grad student you haven't met goes something like this... "This is what I research, what do you research... oh really? Have you ever looked at this? You don't say. Kudos." The ones with ones that you know are a bit shorter, and skip to what would be the results section of the paper. That said, it isn't very often that anybody goes about trying to marginalize anybody else based on their nation of citizenship.
I could work at just about any company, anywhere. In stating that I am a graduate student, I place myself in a community that contains a largely international population.
The Ivy League bit is merely there to give you a flavor of "where" without making it the focus of the post. Unfortunately, it seems to merely have had the effect of providing a silly side point to nit pick at, bringing us away from the core topic and onto a conversation that has gone from "mild waste of time" to "severe waste of time."
Quick follow up. The purpose was to back the statement that I know a number of foreign nationals, not to hold some sort of status over the guys head. For all I know, he works with Miss Manners.
You honestly read too much into my statement... quite a bit that wasn't there.
I didn't say "I went to School X, where the hell did you go?"
I live in a community that is about 50% foreign nationals. Most of my closest friends at this point in my life at not from the U.S.
How is it that I can sit at dinner with a few American's from back home, an American from here, and a foreign national or two, and it's one of the Americans who informs us all of what heathens we are?
I initially never stated that I was a student at an Ivy league school.
What would you have suggested that I do instead? I suppose that I could have left the fact out, but the purpose was to make commentary about the foreign nationals, not to hold my school's status over his head.
Yes, he made a few syntax errors, but your correction is incorrect.
A country is a place. A state is a government. If the economy is collapsing, it's a problem of the state, not of the geographic region in which the state operates.
Cripes. I am a graduate student at an Ivy league institution. I've watched equally awkard, and equally graceful American citizens, immigants, and foreign nationals.
Please don't call me a traitor for taking some pride in my country. I don't have to agree with George Bush to believe that despite American citizenship, I can be cultured, well educated, and well mannered.
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Actually, UN documents are good for this.
I have worked on similar research before. You align corpora in multiple languages, and perform a series of steps regarding regular, natural usage of the language in translation.
The aim is multifold. Honestly, the primary aim is to acquire the data cheaply, since you hopefully won't have to pay annotators to do much.
The problem is finding large bodies of text that meet the criteria. The UN corpora would be excellent for this.
In retrospect, I apologize. I was a bit harsh, and wasn't 100% clearly thinking about all of the possibilities.
Thank you for the front-end realignment.
Yes, I did... ...and then I realized that even as a graduate student, if they had a 250 seat installation, I could afford to replace the whole thing.
Upgrading would probably get them the Windows licenses they need as well as a throw in.
Honestly, much of the time, the workers do need better desktops... but if it's an arms race to keep management in better machinery than the workers... the workers have to have shitty machines to prove the point. Lame.
Keeping in mind that the desktop machines are low-spec (~350MHz CPUs on average), what are our options?
In situations like this, I suggest consulting the Bastard
Do you have anything more to say on the topic than "I think some european countries have a lot stronger privacy rules?"
That isn't really a lot to go on.
Your company is apparently willing to incur the licensing costs of Windows, Windows applications, and this new app, but is unwilling to upgrade its desktops to hardware worth more than $10.
I think that your company is going to fold. You guys really need to figure out a lot more than how to obviate the need for an OS migration.
Dump the money into the FSF, it's the obvious thing to do.
I type much faster than I speak
Now I just need a way to embed this in a TeX file.
Not all people make sense you insensitive clod!
No, flash still sucks.
Actually, the article was an attack on Linux.
He carefully left out any real organization so he wouldn't get a nastygram from their leadership.
Lets recap the article:
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1) The community of "Linux," not the FSF or EFF, who have lawyers to defend themselves from what I'm about to say...
2) Are what will become the labor union for software. After all, developing free and open source software is the hallmark of labor unionization in the software industry...
3) And you bunch of hooligans already behave like mafiosos... let me just recap what a victim SCO has been...
4) You bunch of denial of service attack launching juevenile delinquents...
5) O'Gara is so cool... you jackasses had her fired from a publication called "LinuxWorld," when she made some specious claims about a Linux advocate...
6) You really should have let her do that, since, after all, you should be pumping funding into SCO's defense fund...
7) It was an immature act that just goes to show that you're a bunch of children, with no leadership...
8) See how I still haven't mentioned the FSF... now they won't mail me and complain.
9) Yes! I win! I get to dig on the Linux community, and I'll get a front page article on
10) Go meeeeeeee!!!
you have what appears to be an increasing lack of respect for the competence of management in the industry
Competent management is common in the industry?
In all fairness, I have known a couple highly competent managers.
Well, that does explain why we're all uneducated, rude, and why we smell bad.
Unfortunately, based on the comments from MC Chris's interview, few people around here know what the hell you're talking about.
Still, I thought it funny. Carry on.
I have thoroughly enjoyed your participation in this thread.
Unfortunately, I first saw this impulse in a dear old friend of mine a year or two before arriving here.
It really does turn my stomache to consider what a complete ass you must be to make a statement that implies that the upbringing of all residents of your country is inferior, in order to hope to make yourself sound intelligent.
Though I have seen it in American students here... honestly most people here are pretty straight about themselves, how they feel about others, and don't need to attack each other in such a manner.
I'm not going to say that graduate students are a social elite. For the most part, a social exchange with a grad student you haven't met goes something like this... "This is what I research, what do you research... oh really? Have you ever looked at this? You don't say. Kudos." The ones with ones that you know are a bit shorter, and skip to what would be the results section of the paper. That said, it isn't very often that anybody goes about trying to marginalize anybody else based on their nation of citizenship.
You certainly are funny. You are the cream of the crop.
When you were made, they broke the mold. Then, killed themselves for having been involved in the process.
That's just not true.
I could work at just about any company, anywhere. In stating that I am a graduate student, I place myself in a community that contains a largely international population.
The Ivy League bit is merely there to give you a flavor of "where" without making it the focus of the post. Unfortunately, it seems to merely have had the effect of providing a silly side point to nit pick at, bringing us away from the core topic and onto a conversation that has gone from "mild waste of time" to "severe waste of time."
Quick follow up. The purpose was to back the statement that I know a number of foreign nationals, not to hold some sort of status over the guys head. For all I know, he works with Miss Manners.
You honestly read too much into my statement... quite a bit that wasn't there.
I didn't say "I went to School X, where the hell did you go?"
I live in a community that is about 50% foreign nationals. Most of my closest friends at this point in my life at not from the U.S.
How is it that I can sit at dinner with a few American's from back home, an American from here, and a foreign national or two, and it's one of the Americans who informs us all of what heathens we are?
It was merely an argument.
I initially never stated that I was a student at an Ivy league school.
What would you have suggested that I do instead? I suppose that I could have left the fact out, but the purpose was to make commentary about the foreign nationals, not to hold my school's status over his head.
You really are a moron, aren't you.
Yes, he made a few syntax errors, but your correction is incorrect.
A country is a place. A state is a government. If the economy is collapsing, it's a problem of the state, not of the geographic region in which the state operates.
Look at the Israel and Palestine.
Cripes. I am a graduate student at an Ivy league institution. I've watched equally awkard, and equally graceful American citizens, immigants, and foreign nationals.
Please don't call me a traitor for taking some pride in my country. I don't have to agree with George Bush to believe that despite American citizenship, I can be cultured, well educated, and well mannered.
Some sites used to provide maps... but I don't see any at the moment.