I never was in a neighborhood they served either, not even close. So, the news of the closure of Webvan never even made it to me, until in the middle of Salladasburg, PA, a borough of 300 with a white barn in the middle that says "Welcome to Salladasburg, Smallest boro in Lycoming County!", a webvan van appeared.
WTF? I thought, Are we getting Webvan service?
No, no. Someone just bought a refrigerated van cuz they thought it looked cool.
Screw the Essex! With the upgrades to the Modular V8 - DOHC, Triton 3V, not to mention everything the Mustang gets and we don't, if they had kept it alive, they'd probably actually sell some cars! My '95 4.6l T-Bird LX gets 26MPG highway, I wonder what the newer renditions would get.
Get that crappy little OHV, V6 lawnmower engine out of here!:P
Well, some of the rules in language are pretty universal. I hesitate to say hard-wired because I can't cite it, but think about it. Every language consists of syllables that add up to words that add up to a complete thought. That's how an infant learns it. At first, they just babble as they figure out what sounds they can make - naturally, what sounds human language will have in them. Try and think of a language that doesn't have a soft A vowel as English does.
And deaf babies babble too! It is, however, less complex than a non-hearing impaired infant's. That makes for some interesting theories. If a deaf infant can figure out some consonants, something's probably hard-wired.
Pay attention to it! That babbling is nonsense, but eventually nonsense syllables.
What are some first words you can think of? nana. dada. papi. That indicates that they've gotten far enough in development to know that syllables make up words.
Now here's why I think you are right about the computer not "learning like a baby does". A baby can easily pick up what "dada" and "mama" are quick, what is mama gonna do every time the baby says it? This computer won't learn like an infant will, it will learn language as a blind infant would.
In the article they mention schools giving away free or cheap media downloads.
I go to Penn State. Well, this is good and all - our school used to give away free Napster downloads and now have moved to Ruckus. Well guess what? Every May, after finals, Napster disables your access to your downloads. You can't even stream anymore after the school year ends. And now that they've terminated their contract with Napster, the downloads do nothing at all. Not only that, but good luck getting those downloads to work in anything but Windows Media Player! My MP3s work on anything, including the reason most of it is digitized - to run on my XBox set-top box running XBMC.
So, at least Penn State isn't giving away free or discounted music downloads, they're giving free music rentals. Sorry, but getting a cable modem and using BitTorrent is, and probably always will be more convenient. Sorry, RIAA, you're still fucked.
Of course, Suckular would have to actually release an update, which, because they're Suckular, and NOT AT&T Wireless, they won't actually do. Or, if they did, its only purpose would be to prevent me from using my own MP3s as ringtones or something (in fact, the new firmware as released on the 'AT&T' phones does something close - changes the max size on a ringtone from 600k to 300k).
I know I already replied to the parent post, but I need to reply here, too.
If you're just scanning pages, it's never going to happen. When you read, you may have to read the same paragraph two or three times in order for it to be clear. This is language we're talking about, writing is an art. You MUST carefully read every single word, as in writing, the author cannot add inflection to his words, much less body language!
Get a book of poetry. No, really! Go to a book store, look at some poetry, and buy a book of it that makes absolutely NO sense to you. Then, continue to read it, whenever you have the chance, until you can explain to yourself exactly what is in the poet's mind. And don't worry if you get stumped along the way - it happens. But you can't ever give up on it. It's art, and not the kind where you throw feces at a canvas and call it Jesus. It has meaning, and its meaning can be extracted if you try hard enough. After all, English is how we communicate to eachother (not throwing feces!)
Uh, yeah. I went to a state-run primary and secondary school (and I'm guessing your not an American, because the Federal government doesn't run schools, the LOCAL government does.).
I've got no problem painting the pictures in my head. As long as I can remember, that has been what you were supposed to do. If you didn't learn that from your teacher, you were the guy in the back of the room during reading class not paying attention when the teacher asked the class to describe the setting of whatever story was being read. Hell, IIRC, that was almost always the first thing the teach wanted us to figure out, all the way through from primary school to when I dropped out.
But then again, this GED holder made it into college, and was reading on such a high level in 8th grade that I didn't have to show up to English anymore. =)
Don't blame your problem on the school system, but good luck getting that mental picture frame working! You don't know what you're missing, even in non-fiction!
Fuck that man, I spent countless months learning to binge drink to earn that Over 21 badge earlier this month! What will I do if I can't make fun of the underagers??
See Discovery Channel's "To Catch a Thief" or whatever its called, in which 2 ex-criminals break in your place, ransack it, and then tell you how to not be an idiot when it comes to home security (The guard dog don't do very good if you come with chicken nuggets for you, and the barricaded windows don't work too hot when you leave them unlocked and opened, etc)
Amen buddy. As much as I hate having to support The Monopoly every day, Office 2007 is nice. The ribbon is, well, a bit of innovation for M$, and even though I'm going to Hell for saying it, I like it. A lot. My productivity has/definitely/ improved.
RE: Your Sig... why do you want to boycott Wachovia?
Here's my reason: I tried to make a general stop payment against a company, and they told me not only were stop payments guaranteed, but that they would not fix any NSFs or charges that occur because the un-guaranteed stop payment didn't take place.
I cursed at them via e-mail, and recieved a reply telling me to basically, go to hell. When I wrote the BBB, they asked me to close my account.
I'm a cash man now, screw dialing a 1800 number to get some minimum wage idiot "customer service rep" to try and solve my problems.
Did you see "Blendtec.com" in the back? They're just trying to advertise to you that their blenders are a bit ridiculously powered. Worked for me, though, I visited their website.
Hi there. Your argument for the legalization of marijuana fails to even be coherent. Please put down the bong. You can't say "See?!?! Nicotine is used by the mentally ill, according to this doctor, so Marijuana is good!" There isn't any nicotine in marijuana. It's called THC, and other assorted cannibinols. Just how did the article demonstrate the idiocy of marijuana being on Schedule I?
I am a marijuana user, and am all for legalization, but it's people like you who spew any garbage rhetoric that you can, even when it makes you just look like a stupid teenager that make it harder.
Try and rip "The Pursuit of Happyness" with DVD Shrink. It will not work. (I wouldn't watch that garbage, but my friend's girlfriend would, and she wanted it on her iPod.)
It will, however, work with AnyDVD, so once again, the morons in the suits are one step behind and a few million dollars too much.
I used to have AT&T/Cingular Go Phone, but I lived in an area with no service. Whenever I was home and someone called my cell, it would of course go straight to voicemail without even ringing. That cost me one minute, even if they hung up immediately and called my home phone. SO, every morning when I woke up, I'd go in to town and see $2 or $3 missing from my account because someone bounced on it a couple of times, thinking I was just in a no-service area. They couldn't ever tell me why, either. I had to read the ToS and find out that that was PROBABLY what they were doing. I called them and they said yeah, that's how we do it.
Well, they did it in Canadia because it's colder up there, hence the fuel would be more dense, and they would/lose/ money! What, you expect them to return the favor in Florida?
That's an ignition immobilizer. That could be something sophisticated like a LoJack system, or as simple as my factory alarm's ignition disable - you can't start the car without unlocking the doors with the clicker or the right key.
Blame Verizon for that one. My SAMSUNG A707 (Cingular SYNC) can play any rate MP3s, it just doesn't like some high rate VBR ones, and the titles have to be under 30 characters. I can synchronize them and get playlists using WMP, but if I dont want to, I can use a card reader and make my playlists on the phone (which, granted, does suck).
I don't think it's worthy of a book either, but chess/football/cricket/crafts haven't changed much in the last few, well, multitude of decades. Is Ultima Online even still around?
Yeah, awesome new technological features such as "tilt bits" or "grenade pins" to make sure your game crashes any time there's a voltage fluctuation that the hardware could, without the digital restrictions management, handle without problems!
Well the car analogy works, but like most car analogies, it fails. If General Motors and Exxon decided to do that, everyone would start buying Fords, Toyotas, Hondas, or any of the other major brands of cars that are mature and work quite well and they would buy their gas from Shell, Texaco, Sunoco or any of the other of hundreds of oil companies.
Now, if you're the only game in town, you can effectively lock everyone else out by doing this. If you're not, you'll commit financial suicide.
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I never was in a neighborhood they served either, not even close. So, the news of the closure of Webvan never even made it to me, until in the middle of Salladasburg, PA, a borough of 300 with a white barn in the middle that says "Welcome to Salladasburg, Smallest boro in Lycoming County!", a webvan van appeared.
WTF? I thought, Are we getting Webvan service?
No, no. Someone just bought a refrigerated van cuz they thought it looked cool.
I got karma to burn...
:P
Screw the Essex! With the upgrades to the Modular V8 - DOHC, Triton 3V, not to mention everything the Mustang gets and we don't, if they had kept it alive, they'd probably actually sell some cars! My '95 4.6l T-Bird LX gets 26MPG highway, I wonder what the newer renditions would get.
Get that crappy little OHV, V6 lawnmower engine out of here!
Well, some of the rules in language are pretty universal. I hesitate to say hard-wired because I can't cite it, but think about it. Every language consists of syllables that add up to words that add up to a complete thought.
That's how an infant learns it. At first, they just babble as they figure out what sounds they can make - naturally, what sounds human language will have in them. Try and think of a language that doesn't have a soft A vowel as English does.
And deaf babies babble too! It is, however, less complex than a non-hearing impaired infant's. That makes for some interesting theories. If a deaf infant can figure out some consonants, something's probably hard-wired.
Pay attention to it! That babbling is nonsense, but eventually nonsense syllables.
What are some first words you can think of? nana. dada. papi. That indicates that they've gotten far enough in development to know that syllables make up words.
Now here's why I think you are right about the computer not "learning like a baby does". A baby can easily pick up what "dada" and "mama" are quick, what is mama gonna do every time the baby says it? This computer won't learn like an infant will, it will learn language as a blind infant would.
You know the Wikipedia links are getting out of hand when a post that is simply a link to a Wikipedia article is answered with another one!
You guys made me laugh, though. +1 Funny.
In the article they mention schools giving away free or cheap media downloads.
I go to Penn State. Well, this is good and all - our school used to give away free Napster downloads and now have moved to Ruckus. Well guess what? Every May, after finals, Napster disables your access to your downloads. You can't even stream anymore after the school year ends. And now that they've terminated their contract with Napster, the downloads do nothing at all. Not only that, but good luck getting those downloads to work in anything but Windows Media Player! My MP3s work on anything, including the reason most of it is digitized - to run on my XBox set-top box running XBMC.
So, at least Penn State isn't giving away free or discounted music downloads, they're giving free music rentals. Sorry, but getting a cable modem and using BitTorrent is, and probably always will be more convenient. Sorry, RIAA, you're still fucked.
Except for Eris, of course.
Samsung SGH-A707 "Sync":
:(
Menu-Settings-7 Software Update.
Of course, Suckular would have to actually release an update, which, because they're Suckular, and NOT AT&T Wireless, they won't actually do. Or, if they did, its only purpose would be to prevent me from using my own MP3s as ringtones or something (in fact, the new firmware as released on the 'AT&T' phones does something close - changes the max size on a ringtone from 600k to 300k).
I miss Blue
I know I already replied to the parent post, but I need to reply here, too.
If you're just scanning pages, it's never going to happen. When you read, you may have to read the same paragraph two or three times in order for it to be clear. This is language we're talking about, writing is an art. You MUST carefully read every single word, as in writing, the author cannot add inflection to his words, much less body language!
Get a book of poetry. No, really! Go to a book store, look at some poetry, and buy a book of it that makes absolutely NO sense to you. Then, continue to read it, whenever you have the chance, until you can explain to yourself exactly what is in the poet's mind. And don't worry if you get stumped along the way - it happens. But you can't ever give up on it. It's art, and not the kind where you throw feces at a canvas and call it Jesus. It has meaning, and its meaning can be extracted if you try hard enough. After all, English is how we communicate to eachother (not throwing feces!)
Uh, yeah. I went to a state-run primary and secondary school (and I'm guessing your not an American, because the Federal government doesn't run schools, the LOCAL government does.).
I've got no problem painting the pictures in my head. As long as I can remember, that has been what you were supposed to do. If you didn't learn that from your teacher, you were the guy in the back of the room during reading class not paying attention when the teacher asked the class to describe the setting of whatever story was being read. Hell, IIRC, that was almost always the first thing the teach wanted us to figure out, all the way through from primary school to when I dropped out.
But then again, this GED holder made it into college, and was reading on such a high level in 8th grade that I didn't have to show up to English anymore. =)
Don't blame your problem on the school system, but good luck getting that mental picture frame working! You don't know what you're missing, even in non-fiction!
Fuck that man, I spent countless months learning to binge drink to earn that Over 21 badge earlier this month! What will I do if I can't make fun of the underagers??
See Discovery Channel's "To Catch a Thief" or whatever its called, in which 2 ex-criminals break in your place, ransack it, and then tell you how to not be an idiot when it comes to home security (The guard dog don't do very good if you come with chicken nuggets for you, and the barricaded windows don't work too hot when you leave them unlocked and opened, etc)
Amen buddy. As much as I hate having to support The Monopoly every day, Office 2007 is nice. The ribbon is, well, a bit of innovation for M$, and even though I'm going to Hell for saying it, I like it. A lot. My productivity has /definitely/ improved.
RE: Your Sig... why do you want to boycott Wachovia?
Here's my reason: I tried to make a general stop payment against a company, and they told me not only were stop payments guaranteed, but that they would not fix any NSFs or charges that occur because the un-guaranteed stop payment didn't take place.
I cursed at them via e-mail, and recieved a reply telling me to basically, go to hell. When I wrote the BBB, they asked me to close my account.
I'm a cash man now, screw dialing a 1800 number to get some minimum wage idiot "customer service rep" to try and solve my problems.
Did you see "Blendtec.com" in the back? They're just trying to advertise to you that their blenders are a bit ridiculously powered. Worked for me, though, I visited their website.
Hi there. Your argument for the legalization of marijuana fails to even be coherent. Please put down the bong. You can't say "See?!?! Nicotine is used by the mentally ill, according to this doctor, so Marijuana is good!" There isn't any nicotine in marijuana. It's called THC, and other assorted cannibinols. Just how did the article demonstrate the idiocy of marijuana being on Schedule I?
I am a marijuana user, and am all for legalization, but it's people like you who spew any garbage rhetoric that you can, even when it makes you just look like a stupid teenager that make it harder.
Try and rip "The Pursuit of Happyness" with DVD Shrink. It will not work. (I wouldn't watch that garbage, but my friend's girlfriend would, and she wanted it on her iPod.)
It will, however, work with AnyDVD, so once again, the morons in the suits are one step behind and a few million dollars too much.
Do they do the b/s where Voicemail minutes count?
I used to have AT&T/Cingular Go Phone, but I lived in an area with no service. Whenever I was home and someone called my cell, it would of course go straight to voicemail without even ringing. That cost me one minute, even if they hung up immediately and called my home phone. SO, every morning when I woke up, I'd go in to town and see $2 or $3 missing from my account because someone bounced on it a couple of times, thinking I was just in a no-service area. They couldn't ever tell me why, either. I had to read the ToS and find out that that was PROBABLY what they were doing. I called them and they said yeah, that's how we do it.
Well, they did it in Canadia because it's colder up there, hence the fuel would be more dense, and they would /lose/ money! What, you expect them to return the favor in Florida?
Thats because commercial breaks were 3 minutes when those episodes were made, and now? 4+. Gotta make more room.
That's an ignition immobilizer. That could be something sophisticated like a LoJack system, or as simple as my factory alarm's ignition disable - you can't start the car without unlocking the doors with the clicker or the right key.
Blame Verizon for that one. My SAMSUNG A707 (Cingular SYNC) can play any rate MP3s, it just doesn't like some high rate VBR ones, and the titles have to be under 30 characters. I can synchronize them and get playlists using WMP, but if I dont want to, I can use a card reader and make my playlists on the phone (which, granted, does suck).
Not the biggest American one! I'm an American bigot :P
I don't think it's worthy of a book either, but chess/football/cricket/crafts haven't changed much in the last few, well, multitude of decades. Is Ultima Online even still around?
Yeah, awesome new technological features such as "tilt bits" or "grenade pins" to make sure your game crashes any time there's a voltage fluctuation that the hardware could, without the digital restrictions management, handle without problems!
Well the car analogy works, but like most car analogies, it fails. If General Motors and Exxon decided to do that, everyone would start buying Fords, Toyotas, Hondas, or any of the other major brands of cars that are mature and work quite well and they would buy their gas from Shell, Texaco, Sunoco or any of the other of hundreds of oil companies.
Now, if you're the only game in town, you can effectively lock everyone else out by doing this. If you're not, you'll commit financial suicide.