He didn't give an order to the judicial branch, the Department of Justice is under the executive branch. It is a law enforcement body. They are persuing the charges but they aren't a judicial body in charge of the case, That would be the distict court. Bush gave no order to the court (at least not officially)
you're obviously laissez-faire when it comes to creating new words
Yes, I actually enjoy new words, as well as bending and abusing old words. I think it adds some flavor to the language as well as allowing for some specific conotations not covered with the standard usage.
So when I see a repeated mistake that bugs me, I try to point out the mistake. Its probably a lost cause, but tilting at windmills can be a decent pass time
I feel the same way about people talking about real words and actual meanings.
By the way "affective" is a word, but I don't think that its the word that you meant. Try "effective" next time.
Yes, you are correct, that is what I meant. However there was obviously no ambiguity about what I meant so affective was (a)effective in that case.:)
No such word. Those word always make me shudder. There is obviously such a word because you used it several times. Maybe you can say it is a new word, not a commonly accepted word, but it is still a word. Virii is also an affective word. You see the purpose of words is to communicate an idea. You obviously knew that the word virii was used as the plural for virus because you mentioned it in your dumb poem.
Another point is all words are made up, words have no inate meaning, the meaning of a word is only gained through context and usage. Since we have an evolving and unrestricted language where there is no central authority passing out stamps of approval to new words (like the French do), words only become appropriate through usage.
So as a rule of thumb any group of sounds used to try to convey a meaning is a word. It is an effective word if it conveyed the intended meaning. It is only not a 'real' word if you have only imagined it and never used it to try to convey a thought.
Scientists have proved that all it takes to be a good chess player is a good memory. So why do we treat these people as though playing chess is a sign of intelligence ?
Rarely is anything about the mind proven, just speculated and corelated. If all it takes to play chess is a good memory, then why has it take so long for computers to compete with grand masters level chess players. Computers have superior memory to people. It is becuase computers lack abstraction and reasoning skills, two basic component in what you call imagination.
If you want to offer services worldwide, you should compy with standards worldwide.
That is completely impractical. There are millions of legal entities world wide(countries, states, counties, cities), is it beyond the capability of any business to keep track of them all. If a legal entity doesn't want content, I think it should be up to them to keep it out like China does. Not to require some foregin business to notice that somebody is french.
I have to agree about most of the tv stuff, but being from the midwest, the storm warnings are important. I would like those to stay, the time, station, and show can go.
Too bad I can't get to the article to see how they are defining random. I have studied random numbers quite a bit, and have worked on the assumption that any thing that can be calculated is not truely random. So under that definition no, it isn't random, and neither are any of the random number generator algorithms.
The comon test for randomness is the chi squared test which actually tests for dispersion of numbers. That is are number occuring in 'equal' frequencies in an order that isn't too similar to the order in other sections of the sample. Failing the chi squared tests shows you aren't 'Pseudo Random' passing it only proves your numbers are dispersed not random
It would take a mega huge solar sail to move anyone on earth because the air resistance, ground friction, and the fact that there is less light due to atmospheric refraction and absorbtion. Plus no one could go out at night:)
I disagree. Intelligence is the ability to figure out a task. You want an intelligent robo-maid. Intelligence can exist without sentience. They are not the same thing.
Nanomanipulation and virtual surgery are code words for porn. Nanomanipulation is what people are doing while looking at it, and you have to admit that some sex acts are more invasive than surgery.
I have to disagree with the sediment. I think they mix quite well. I think improvements in sports medicine have added to games, keeping some of the greats in the game longer, allowing people to get familiar.
It also does something else, it allows geeks to compete in professional sports, though not directly, I could see it as a source of pride to have designed the exercise program that made your team the forth quarter terrors. Or to develope a machine that helps some player recover and extend his career.
After thinking about it, they could record it, if instead of giving a direct url, they gave a redirecting url through their site. They don't do this but they could.
It would be nice if they included the top 10 clicked links so we know who google directed to the most. Though maybe they don't collect that info. If they did it would also be interesting to see if their partners or premium customers or whatever had more clicks or not.
Kodak does not make money selling software for their cameras, they make money selling cameras!
But they do make money selling prints. Microsoft would also automatically connect you to their approved printsellers list. Microsoft charges a fee to be on the list, and makes money off of each pring that is printed from this referal
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He didn't give an order to the judicial branch, the Department of Justice is under the executive branch. It is a law enforcement body. They are persuing the charges but they aren't a judicial body in charge of the case, That would be the distict court. Bush gave no order to the court (at least not officially)
Time is already defined by the vibration of some atom. I forget which element at what temperature but that's how atomic clocks work
Heck, I can compress every file in the world to 1 byte. Oh you want to decompress? Well it is a bit lossy.
Video games don't make you violent damn it, and I will beat the pulp out of anyone that says otherwise.
IBM has made a Smalltalk compiler that writes java byte code. It's called Visual Age for Smalltalk
you're obviously laissez-faire when it comes to creating new words
Yes, I actually enjoy new words, as well as bending and abusing old words. I think it adds some flavor to the language as well as allowing for some specific conotations not covered with the standard usage.
So when I see a repeated mistake that bugs me, I try to point out the mistake. Its probably a lost cause, but tilting at windmills can be a decent pass time
I feel the same way about people talking about real words and actual meanings.
By the way "affective" is a word, but I don't think that its the word that you meant. Try "effective" next time.
Yes, you are correct, that is what I meant. However there was obviously no ambiguity about what I meant so affective was (a)effective in that case. :)
No such word. Those word always make me shudder. There is obviously such a word because you used it several times. Maybe you can say it is a new word, not a commonly accepted word, but it is still a word. Virii is also an affective word. You see the purpose of words is to communicate an idea. You obviously knew that the word virii was used as the plural for virus because you mentioned it in your dumb poem.
Another point is all words are made up, words have no inate meaning, the meaning of a word is only gained through context and usage. Since we have an evolving and unrestricted language where there is no central authority passing out stamps of approval to new words (like the French do), words only become appropriate through usage.
So as a rule of thumb any group of sounds used to try to convey a meaning is a word. It is an effective word if it conveyed the intended meaning. It is only not a 'real' word if you have only imagined it and never used it to try to convey a thought.
Maybe he plans to visit the US sometime and doesn't want to get arrested like Dimitri,
Scientists have proved that all it takes to be a good chess player is a good memory. So why do we treat these people as though playing chess is a sign of intelligence ?
Rarely is anything about the mind proven, just speculated and corelated. If all it takes to play chess is a good memory, then why has it take so long for computers to compete with grand masters level chess players. Computers have superior memory to people. It is becuase computers lack abstraction and reasoning skills, two basic component in what you call imagination.
If you want to offer services worldwide, you should compy with standards worldwide.
That is completely impractical. There are millions of legal entities world wide(countries, states, counties, cities), is it beyond the capability of any business to keep track of them all. If a legal entity doesn't want content, I think it should be up to them to keep it out like China does. Not to require some foregin business to notice that somebody is french.
I Don't understand why dont they apply their own patches to their own servers ?
Probably for the same reason many people don't install the patches. They have the server up and running and are afraid of what the patch will break.
They will build a 6 foot fence, but the open source community will build an 8 foot ladder.
And it will be an opes source ladder that I can extend to a 10 foot ladder when the fence is extended to 8 foot
I have to agree about most of the tv stuff, but being from the midwest, the storm warnings are important. I would like those to stay, the time, station, and show can go.
Maybe he meant the first in space on a civilian craft.
Too bad I can't get to the article to see how they are defining random. I have studied random numbers quite a bit, and have worked on the assumption that any thing that can be calculated is not truely random. So under that definition no, it isn't random, and neither are any of the random number generator algorithms.
The comon test for randomness is the chi squared test which actually tests for dispersion of numbers. That is are number occuring in 'equal' frequencies in an order that isn't too similar to the order in other sections of the sample. Failing the chi squared tests shows you aren't 'Pseudo Random' passing it only proves your numbers are dispersed not random
It would take a mega huge solar sail to move anyone on earth because the air resistance, ground friction, and the fact that there is less light due to atmospheric refraction and absorbtion. Plus no one could go out at night:)
I disagree. Intelligence is the ability to figure out a task. You want an intelligent robo-maid. Intelligence can exist without sentience. They are not the same thing.
Or how about Kermit, I think it is even older.
Nanomanipulation and virtual surgery are code words for porn. Nanomanipulation is what people are doing while looking at it, and you have to admit that some sex acts are more invasive than surgery.
Doh. Never could spell.
I have to disagree with the sediment. I think they mix quite well. I think improvements in sports medicine have added to games, keeping some of the greats in the game longer, allowing people to get familiar.
It also does something else, it allows geeks to compete in professional sports, though not directly, I could see it as a source of pride to have designed the exercise program that made your team the forth quarter terrors. Or to develope a machine that helps some player recover and extend his career.
After thinking about it, they could record it, if instead of giving a direct url, they gave a redirecting url through their site. They don't do this but they could.
It would be nice if they included the top 10 clicked links so we know who google directed to the most. Though maybe they don't collect that info. If they did it would also be interesting to see if their partners or premium customers or whatever had more clicks or not.
But they do make money selling prints. Microsoft would also automatically connect you to their approved printsellers list. Microsoft charges a fee to be on the list, and makes money off of each pring that is printed from this referal
Frank. btw you can e-mail me at the listed address.