We're a company of about 400 people so off-the-shelf calendar applications wouldn't fit. So when this issue came up, we decided to build our own. It took about a month for a sole programmer, but at least it matches our company requirements perfectly.
Just thinking about it, wouldn't it make a fabulous plot for Sci-Fi authors? Right now, we don't allow recording at certain places (movie theatre, court of law, museums...) but what are the implications of being able to perfectly extract the content of your wetware?
DuckDuckGo integrate nicely into Firefox and it defaults to encrypted search. Been using it for at least a year and it's par (sometimes worse, sometimes better) with Google.
Do you understand that every time you react that way, it only supports what I was saying? That if you wanted to prove me wrong, you would maybe take my comment and highlight its flaws, for instance saying something like "sure, but you are forgetting the instances where the US has _helped_ others?" and then go on a list of, maybe, humanitarian actions and such, even maybe brandishing your ever popular "without us, Europe would be a (pick one: Nazi/Communist/Fascist) dictatorship today", or the less used "if it wasn't for our contributions to science and technology, you wouldn't have a computer to type on or the Internet to post your raving nonsense". At least it would spark some sort of dialogue where, maybe, one or both parties would actually learn something.
Come on, try it, let's have an informative post out of this.
I'd say the purpose of war is to destroy a state that has become a liability to the human race, and it's past time.
sounds like the US to me. Mod me troll if you want, but take a serious good look at what the US have done to the world in the last 10 years. Exercise to the reader: list the wars the US started, the casualty they incurred and the suffering it brought during that time frame alone.
It's a good point. Coincidentally, I am reading The Code Book, by Simon Singh where the history of cryptography is exposed. I am now in the section about Enigma and I've discovered a few things I never knew, like the fact the Poles were successful in deciphering Enigma thanks to leaked information from a German informer who exchange data with a French spy ("Rex"). Great book for those interested in history and cryptography.
Anyways, back on topic, Alan Turing had a part to you're right that the credit falls on many unnamed persons. History needs figurehead I suppose.
Yet, you can get a woman (=XX) out of a man (=XY) and not the other around.
completely unrelated note, I was stunned to learn that it is the opposite for bees. Female bees have ZW while drones have ZZ, so that a female can beget a male, but not the other way around. JigJag
Hey man, just a personal question. You said you couldn't run 100m but now you can do a 12 km run. I'm interested in how you did it. I'm in a similar position as your initial situation. Although not terrible fat, I can run 100 m without perspiring a small flood and my heart is beating on a hardtrance beat. How did you get to where you're at now? How long did it take? Any recommendation to share with your fellow slashdotter?
There is absolutely nothing prohibiting people from taking alternative transport to or from work beyond a person's own unwillingness to utilize it.
true, but it is not a valid answer to:
The congestion fee isn't stealing any money
Inventing ways to charge people out of thin air is stealing money, even if it's legally approved. Just like paying a license to own a pet, parking on your own driveway, gathering in a park for BBQ, etc. Those last 3 examples, believe it or not, are what Torontonians have to pay for, so my rant equally applies to Canada as it does to the UK (which it unfortunately closely emulates). In fact, I see the process as follows:
UK Lord #1: What are people loving so much that they are willing to pay for it? UK Lord #2: (give a random answer like 'driving to town', 'wearing a hoodie for privacy', 'seeking adult content online',....) UK Lord #1: Right! Let's impose a new fee or a license so they can continue to do it! UK Lord #2: Easy money!
Knowing what the brits are capable of inventing to legally steal money (congestion charge anyone?), I give it 2 years before the activation for adult content is a privilege you must pay for.
now everyone has Autism. In ten years it'll be some other bullshit excuse for why their kids are antisocial little fuckwits and there will be a doctor standing right there
I agree with you 100%. In fact, I'll push it further: it is not diseases that are affecting the kids. It's the lack of parental education and training, discipline and interaction. So they blame it on external sources (naturally, there are real cases of autism, but that's not what I'm talking about here).
I have a 2 year-old son and a 6-month-old daughter at home and let me tell you that my 2 year-old perfectly understand that we don't tolerate antisocial behaviour. Are we hard, unloving parents? Not at all. I spent virtually all my free time with my kids when I'm done work until they go to bed. We play, laugh, learn, watch TV, draw pictures, read books, go out to the park, wrestle (all in good fun). But my 2 year-old knows there are limits and what and where they are: A tantrum gets an automatic "no", period. Mild misbehaviour gets him a stern warning. Repeated mild misbehaviour gets him to wait in the corner or a spanking (depending on the situation), with a requirement to apologize when it's over. Strong misbehaviour (like when he decided it would be fun to pull apart the leaves of a potted plant my wife loves) gets a sit down discussion asking why it happened, addressing why it mustn't happen again and explaining the consequences of his acts on my wife, me and ultimately him.
He is allowed however to play in the mud and experiment with nature and toys, so that he can keep a strong sense of curiosity and I try not to intervene when playing with other kids so he can learn to assert and depend on himself.
And you know what? Every person who knows him are enthused by his social graces (polite, happy, interactive). We take our role of parents seriously and it pays off.
My daughter is still a little young, but we'll follow the same principles with her.
You begged the question when you said "The world is as old as the Bible claims it is, but God made it look older." The Bible says nothing about old the world is. It helps pinpoint when *humans* appeared, but not for the universe, nor the earth, nor the plants, nor the animals. We can trace when humans started since we have a record of ages from Adam to the Flood, to Abraham entering Canaan (we can even deduce which day: 14 Nissan 1943 BCE), to the Exodus, to the splitting of the 12 tribes kingdom, to Jerusalem's desolation by the Babylonians, to their return from exile, to the rebuilding of the city walls, to Jesus' baptism. As for the other parts of creation (universe, earth, plants, animals), we just know in which order they appeared. And no, "one" day of creation is not 24 hours since: 1) the seventh day is still running (no mention of "there came to be evening and there came to be morning" for the seventh day AND in Heb 4:1-10 Paul says he was still living in the seventh day, the one of rest), so the seventh day spans several millenniums, why not the other ones? 2) Gen 2:4 uses the word "day" (singular) to cover all the 7 days, meaning that it is to be taken as steps, not as 24 hours. 3) God said "it is not good for the man to continue by himself" (Gen 2:18-20), but the first man was tasked with naming the animals first and then he made the first woman. How much time do you think it takes to name animals? Suppose 5 minutes to decide based on immediate appearances. If he started at 00:10 (to have time to build all animals and man) and finished at 23:55 (to give time to build a wife, say), that's under 300 animals (wild beast of the fields, domestic animals and flying creatures of the heavens). And by the way, no sleep, no food, no rest in-between! No time to get bored, right? You're always busy with animals. You're not *by yourself*. Yet, Gen 1:27 says they were created the same "day", on in other words, the same creative period.
So sure, the universe is millions or billions of years old and so is the earth, plants and animals, just man isn't. Strange that agriculture, spoken language, written language, metal working, herding, etc all appeared at the same time, isn't it?
Finally, I don't expect you to agree with me and suddenly profess faith and all. But you started with wrong assumptions which lead inevitably to wrong conclusions. In this case, that the Bible says something about the age of the universe. It doesn't.
This remind me so much of the "Credits" used in many 80s games or movies. You know what I mean: they swipe a card to pay with Credits, but you never see any credits, it's all computerized.
That's actually a funny response. Thanks Not Québécois here, but I've been in Canada long enough to tip appropriately (thanks to my wife's constant training!).
But back to our topic: I did get my number wrong, however like I originally posted, it was quoting from memory (which happen to be defective!). After much recollection, I remember that I got that number from my father when he discussed with me the writings of Victor Hugo. Turns out most people's written words fall under that 1000 word list., but Victor Hugo would use a 2000 vocabulary in his materials. So in fact, it's not about understood vocabulary, but about written words.
I also thoroughly enjoyed MyLongNickName's experience in tracking usage. Well done and maybe you could compile your word list over a long span to see how rich your vocable is.
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We're a company of about 400 people so off-the-shelf calendar applications wouldn't fit. So when this issue came up, we decided to build our own. It took about a month for a sole programmer, but at least it matches our company requirements perfectly.
JigJag
Just thinking about it, wouldn't it make a fabulous plot for Sci-Fi authors? Right now, we don't allow recording at certain places (movie theatre, court of law, museums ...) but what are the implications of being able to perfectly extract the content of your wetware?
JigJag
DuckDuckGo integrate nicely into Firefox and it defaults to encrypted search. Been using it for at least a year and it's par (sometimes worse, sometimes better) with Google.
JigJag
Surrogates covered the side-effects of such a development.
Do you understand that every time you react that way, it only supports what I was saying?
That if you wanted to prove me wrong, you would maybe take my comment and highlight its flaws, for instance saying something like "sure, but you are forgetting the instances where the US has _helped_ others?" and then go on a list of, maybe, humanitarian actions and such, even maybe brandishing your ever popular "without us, Europe would be a (pick one: Nazi/Communist/Fascist) dictatorship today", or the less used "if it wasn't for our contributions to science and technology, you wouldn't have a computer to type on or the Internet to post your raving nonsense". At least it would spark some sort of dialogue where, maybe, one or both parties would actually learn something.
Come on, try it, let's have an informative post out of this.
Bring it, motherfucker.
And how exactly would you say your comment didn't perfectly illustrate my point?
JigJag
I'd say the purpose of war is to destroy a state that has become a liability to the human race, and it's past time.
sounds like the US to me. Mod me troll if you want, but take a serious good look at what the US have done to the world in the last 10 years. Exercise to the reader: list the wars the US started, the casualty they incurred and the suffering it brought during that time frame alone.
JigJag
It's a good point. Coincidentally, I am reading The Code Book, by Simon Singh where the history of cryptography is exposed. I am now in the section about Enigma and I've discovered a few things I never knew, like the fact the Poles were successful in deciphering Enigma thanks to leaked information from a German informer who exchange data with a French spy ("Rex").
Great book for those interested in history and cryptography.
Anyways, back on topic, Alan Turing had a part to you're right that the credit falls on many unnamed persons. History needs figurehead I suppose.
JigJag
Enhance you calm, Afecks.
And also, you should give credits where due: Demolition Man
jigJag
Yet, you can get a woman (=XX) out of a man (=XY) and not the other around.
completely unrelated note, I was stunned to learn that it is the opposite for bees. Female bees have ZW while drones have ZZ, so that a female can beget a male, but not the other way around.
JigJag
thanks, I'll check it out!
JigJag
arrgh, I meant "I CAN'T run 100 m"
Hey man, just a personal question. You said you couldn't run 100m but now you can do a 12 km run. I'm interested in how you did it.
I'm in a similar position as your initial situation. Although not terrible fat, I can run 100 m without perspiring a small flood and my heart is beating on a hardtrance beat.
How did you get to where you're at now? How long did it take? Any recommendation to share with your fellow slashdotter?
thx
JigJag
There is absolutely nothing prohibiting people from taking alternative transport to or from work beyond a person's own unwillingness to utilize it.
true, but it is not a valid answer to:
The congestion fee isn't stealing any money
Inventing ways to charge people out of thin air is stealing money, even if it's legally approved. Just like paying a license to own a pet, parking on your own driveway, gathering in a park for BBQ, etc. Those last 3 examples, believe it or not, are what Torontonians have to pay for, so my rant equally applies to Canada as it does to the UK (which it unfortunately closely emulates). In fact, I see the process as follows:
UK Lord #1: What are people loving so much that they are willing to pay for it? ....)
UK Lord #2: (give a random answer like 'driving to town', 'wearing a hoodie for privacy', 'seeking adult content online',
UK Lord #1: Right! Let's impose a new fee or a license so they can continue to do it!
UK Lord #2: Easy money!
That's legally stealing money in my book.
JigJag
then why are birds small?
Knowing what the brits are capable of inventing to legally steal money (congestion charge anyone?), I give it 2 years before the activation for adult content is a privilege you must pay for.
JigJag
It's Peter Molyneux, not le minoux.
Mostly because Sunday is the first day of the week
I see your Hebrew calendar here and I raise you ISO 8601: the first day of the week is Monday.
Is this guy speaking Smurf?
Call to the MODS: This is funny, rate accordingly!
now everyone has Autism. In ten years it'll be some other bullshit excuse for why their kids are antisocial little fuckwits and there will be a doctor standing right there
I agree with you 100%. In fact, I'll push it further: it is not diseases that are affecting the kids. It's the lack of parental education and training, discipline and interaction. So they blame it on external sources (naturally, there are real cases of autism, but that's not what I'm talking about here).
I have a 2 year-old son and a 6-month-old daughter at home and let me tell you that my 2 year-old perfectly understand that we don't tolerate antisocial behaviour. Are we hard, unloving parents? Not at all.
I spent virtually all my free time with my kids when I'm done work until they go to bed. We play, laugh, learn, watch TV, draw pictures, read books, go out to the park, wrestle (all in good fun). But my 2 year-old knows there are limits and what and where they are:
A tantrum gets an automatic "no", period.
Mild misbehaviour gets him a stern warning. Repeated mild misbehaviour gets him to wait in the corner or a spanking (depending on the situation), with a requirement to apologize when it's over.
Strong misbehaviour (like when he decided it would be fun to pull apart the leaves of a potted plant my wife loves) gets a sit down discussion asking why it happened, addressing why it mustn't happen again and explaining the consequences of his acts on my wife, me and ultimately him.
He is allowed however to play in the mud and experiment with nature and toys, so that he can keep a strong sense of curiosity and I try not to intervene when playing with other kids so he can learn to assert and depend on himself.
And you know what? Every person who knows him are enthused by his social graces (polite, happy, interactive). We take our role of parents seriously and it pays off.
My daughter is still a little young, but we'll follow the same principles with her.
JigJag
Got mod points but I wanted to address this.
You begged the question when you said "The world is as old as the Bible claims it is, but God made it look older." The Bible says nothing about old the world is. It helps pinpoint when *humans* appeared, but not for the universe, nor the earth, nor the plants, nor the animals. We can trace when humans started since we have a record of ages from Adam to the Flood, to Abraham entering Canaan (we can even deduce which day: 14 Nissan 1943 BCE), to the Exodus, to the splitting of the 12 tribes kingdom, to Jerusalem's desolation by the Babylonians, to their return from exile, to the rebuilding of the city walls, to Jesus' baptism.
As for the other parts of creation (universe, earth, plants, animals), we just know in which order they appeared. And no, "one" day of creation is not 24 hours since:
1) the seventh day is still running (no mention of "there came to be evening and there came to be morning" for the seventh day AND in Heb 4:1-10 Paul says he was still living in the seventh day, the one of rest), so the seventh day spans several millenniums, why not the other ones?
2) Gen 2:4 uses the word "day" (singular) to cover all the 7 days, meaning that it is to be taken as steps, not as 24 hours.
3) God said "it is not good for the man to continue by himself" (Gen 2:18-20), but the first man was tasked with naming the animals first and then he made the first woman. How much time do you think it takes to name animals? Suppose 5 minutes to decide based on immediate appearances. If he started at 00:10 (to have time to build all animals and man) and finished at 23:55 (to give time to build a wife, say), that's under 300 animals (wild beast of the fields, domestic animals and flying creatures of the heavens). And by the way, no sleep, no food, no rest in-between! No time to get bored, right? You're always busy with animals. You're not *by yourself*. Yet, Gen 1:27 says they were created the same "day", on in other words, the same creative period.
So sure, the universe is millions or billions of years old and so is the earth, plants and animals, just man isn't. Strange that agriculture, spoken language, written language, metal working, herding, etc all appeared at the same time, isn't it?
Finally, I don't expect you to agree with me and suddenly profess faith and all. But you started with wrong assumptions which lead inevitably to wrong conclusions. In this case, that the Bible says something about the age of the universe. It doesn't.
JigJag
This remind me so much of the "Credits" used in many 80s games or movies. You know what I mean: they swipe a card to pay with Credits, but you never see any credits, it's all computerized.
JigJag
If you were right, then .Net would be massively popular amongst developers.
That's actually a funny response. Thanks Not Québécois here, but I've been in Canada long enough to tip appropriately (thanks to my wife's constant training!).
But back to our topic: I did get my number wrong, however like I originally posted, it was quoting from memory (which happen to be defective!). After much recollection, I remember that I got that number from my father when he discussed with me the writings of Victor Hugo. Turns out most people's written words fall under that 1000 word list., but Victor Hugo would use a 2000 vocabulary in his materials. So in fact, it's not about understood vocabulary, but about written words.
I also thoroughly enjoyed MyLongNickName's experience in tracking usage. Well done and maybe you could compile your word list over a long span to see how rich your vocable is.
JigJag