That and politics as usual. Democrats have to push a lot of extra fluff into bills now, so they can "compromise" by removing them... this kind of exercise helps keep the Republicans from targeting stuff they actually want to keep, while earning brownie points for both teams with their respective bases.
Historically the US economy has done well with a (D) President and an (R) Congress. So just sit back and relax and try to minimize administrative overhead while they sneak through the next pork barrel under all of the fuss.
Have you seen a PC in the past 5 years that would honestly count as "game-changing"? Neither have I. Everything is an iterative step now.
Really. I've been looking for something like this since for projects 2009. The nVidia ION nano-ITX reference platform looked perfect, but NOBODY ever made it for sale: http://hothardware.com/reviews...
I did evaluate a Fit-PC2 , but it was too badly hobbled by the binary blob video driver. Plus, we had some severe issues with SATA that made it almost unusable with an SSD.
I'm glad CompuLab is trying an AMD version of this form factor. My only worry is with the AMD/ATi video, but it's been a long time since I had been burned by the ATi 7500 All-in-Wonder, which never received any of the OSS treatment promised from ATi (though it had great support from the GATOS project).
In the mean time, for both work and my home server, I ended up going with mini-ITX nVidia ION boxes, which were fast and flexible enough to build decent shoebox / piggyback PCs with full compiz compositing and could run just about any x86 software short of virtualization.
That said, just picked up the $100 HP Stream 7 tablet last month, and am liking it. I think that could possibly be some sort of game-changer, esp. once someone figures out how to bootstrap Linux on it, or maybe even if it's stuck with Win8.1
The $35 Raspberry Pi doesn't come with a power supply, or a case, or any storage. That stuff adds up... display, peripherals, HDMI cable... Most little projects I could think of doing as a Pi project would be better served with an old (or even a cheap new) android phone/tablet, which would also include a touchscreen, wifi, bluetooth, audio, camera, power supply for not much more.
For any kind of embedded use, I think an arduino would do better. For any kind of small computer kiosk, I think a tablet or even an old EeePC netbook would do better than even a Banana Pi. I'm glad the Pi exists, but wish I could find some use for my Pi... The best I can come up with so far is a portable BSOD screensaver for any random monitor I might walk up to in public, but I have a feeling one of those HDMI stick PCs would be better suited for that.
Dogs do have curses. After listening to some neighborhood dogs bark at each other, I repeated one of their phrases to a dog I was friends with. He snarled at me. Couldn't get that response with any other barking pattern I tried.
I don't think I read that in quite the same way... it sounds like his main point is that Ferguson was essentially an unfortunate confrontation between asshole cops and asshole teens, and we shouldn't let an episode of "when assholes collide" dominate the national debate between law enforcement and minorities. It's not fair to our black friends and it's not fair to our cop friends (especially the ones who are not assholes).
That said, there's a lot of work we have to do from both sides to help improve race relations and authoritarian abuse of power, to provide good examples of how people ought to treat each other. The media portrayal of both cops and minorities is terrible and serves as a bad example for impressionable youths and law enforcement officials. We ought to figure out some way of giving good role models more media exposure.
I don't wish any member of the US government to be put to death, what I do wish is for these bastards to be stripped of all their wealth and privileges and forced to live in a roach infested studio apartment in the bad section of town. Then I would force them to work as an assistant night fry cook at Walley's Wonderful World of Burgers in Festering Boil, Oklahoma. These people have forgotten, if they ever knew, what the rest of us put up with in order to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. We need to have these people learn what real work looks like.
So, uh, Mike Rowe for President, then? Sounds good, the few political statements he's made have been bipartisan and very well thought out.
Based on most Android and iOS articles I've read on/., this should really be two articles:
1. Apple ships support for Emoji ships, but it's rubbish and no one needs it anyway. 2. Google's amazing new Emoji for is almost ready to ship, revolutionising web browsing on OS X.
3. Firefox announces an filter to remove Emoji from your web experience. Plugin available that converts Emoji to ASCII art. e.g. OGC Turn your head sideways to the left to see the little wanker.
I would agree with you. Though the educators do need to be cognizant that different children learn different ways, perhaps partly due to their strengths / weaknesses with those 7 character traits, and choose the optimal delivery method from their toolbox for that child. That's the main reason why good teachers are essential in the classroom, the 'universal curriculum' with specific textbooks/TV/computer/ - etc. driven stuff that politicians have always been trying to push on the schools are merely tools.
This topic is pretty relevant to me right now, since I have 2 children that are struggling in school for different reasons. The boy is bright and picks things up fast, but has quite severe motivational problems. He takes no pride in the quality of any of his schoolwork, and just rushes through everything and doesn't care about whether it's correct or not. However, he's extremely friendly and social (must be a grandfather gene), but always wants to be the ringleader and has trouble accepting authority and always pushes the envelope for what he can get away with. Now that things have finally gotten real in 7th grade, his grades (which have never been stellar) are finally taking a dive in math, science, and writing, since he'd rather goof off with his friends than pay attention. Now, I was the same way when I was his age, but I did manage to have several experiences that "woke me up" which I unfortunately haven't been able to convey to him... even though I saved all of my Legos for him, I'm afraid I didn't teach him patience and how to follow instructions by allowing him to gradually assemble smaller sets according to the instructions. In 4th grade my mother taught me to take pride in my work simply by showing me a new technique to neatly "color within the lines" in a coloring book. In 6th grade I needed a behavior contract with rewards (video games) for consistently maintaining good behavior (which have worked quite successfully on my son, but only for breaking certain habits). But at this point he's lost so many privileges that he just goes to bed sleeps most of the time after he comes home, like a depression.
We'd just chalk it up to bad parenting if it wasn't for the girl, who definitely has "grit" and a lot of the other essential character attributes. Her problem is simply some reasonably severe dyslexia that she got from parts of our family, which set her behind in reading for a few years. She has a bunch of accommodations and organizational aids from her elementary school now, and that is certainly helping her tread water, even though it takes her much, much longer to process and complete any kind of schoolwork. However, once she makes it "over the hump" with basic literacy proficiency, it looks like she'll probably take off.
Anyway, we're certainly very interested in hearing any advice and anecdotes anyone has about dealing with disaffected youth to motivate our son to give a damn about school. He's already in one of the best public middle schools in the country (it's pretty high up on http://www.thebestschools.org/... ), so it's not because he's bored or isn't challenged with the work or peer groups. This article is helpful pointing out some things that might be missing from his upbringing, but we could always use more reading and advice before we seek professional help (which we're about to do soon).
Funny you came right after the "Natalie Portman's hot grit trolls" AC... that used to be a staple of/. Whatever happened? Not that I ever got the original meme.
Well, not just whatever's convenient but entirely rational. Accepting that AGW is occurring means we ought to do something about it, and that something will probably cost money. But even by the worst projections, climate change won't have any catastrophic impact on most of our lives within our lifespan. Conservatives have made it clear that they have no interest in spending money to fix other people's problems. Environmentalists seem to think that they might be able to change their minds with more data, but I'm pretty sure that's a waste of time. Even if the Earth came with a big thermometer with a redline that stated "if exceeded, everyone pay $100,000 to deal with refugees from low-lying coastal areas", conservatives would still refuse to participate in any conservation efforts, or even acknowledge that AGW is a factor. Rule #1 of absconding financial responsibility is: never admit fault.
I'm sure they'd gladly throw money at a military solution to the refugee crisis, though.
Eh, I'll try it when they find a way to finally reintroduce female characters without it turning into some misogynistic sausage-fest. ~ censor.nudity false
Yeah, this... I got a Macbook Pro late last year to use as a dev box. I did manage to learn some of the dazzling array of shortcut keys and got used to their touchpad gestures somewhat quickly. But the thing gets hot pretty fast, and I can already hear the fan starting to grind and struggle a bit. It gets hotter than the i7 Lenovo z710 I bought for my wife last year.
To be fair, the Lenovo has lots of other problems... they threw in the crappy Intel AC 7260 wifi/bluetooth chip, which just plain didn't work (it simply drops the connection every 5-30 minutes, and is terrible maintaining connections with any sort of distance and congestion - my wife has had to resort to plugging in to the wired ethernet in the basement to actually get any work done). Supposedly Intel finally released a HW rev that addresses some of the issues, I need to try to contact Lenovo to see if they'll replace it in warranty. Also, the Lenovo seems to grind to a halt every once in a while for no reason. I replaced the HDD with a nice Samsung 850 SSD, but it still seems to do this. Might be Win8.1 , but Win8.1 seems to work fine on the crappy little HP Stream 7 Atom tablet we just picked up.
Yes, I could tell this is a scam because of the headline. If it was really the p0rn companies, it would have read: "Porn companies are coming for Github"
This. Yes, the "right" way is just to block YouTube.com entirely.
The way they've implemented it allows you to still read YouTube for the comments (snicker), or maybe edit videos or search and bookmark links to view later. I suppose now they're sorry that they tried to do you a favor.
My understanding is that (under "normal" real estate conditions which we haven't seen for a while now), the break-even point between renting and buying is supposed to be after about 5 years. At that point, you should have made enough money back in tax deductions (it's nearly impossible to beat the standard deduction without a couple $10k in mortgage interest deductions) and appreciation to cover the closing costs, property taxes, etc. vs. renting a place for a similar monthly payment for 5 years.
After that point, the risk should start paying off, especially in the twilight years 25 years later when most of your mortgage payment is going to principal building your equity.
The dirty little secret is that we're wasting too much money trying to educate kids that don't give a damn about education and would rather be doing something other than learning.'
Yes, bring back tracking. Your parents don't care, you don't care, you want to be doing something else? Fine, you are done at Grade 6, you can come back to adult ed and the remaining 6 years of education when you want it.
It is highly controversial, but the system worked well. The concept of "no child left behind" is a monstrous lie. All children cannot attain to the same levels. It is cruel to try to force children who do not posses the correct attributes to meet a standard that is designed above their level. It is as mean as asking a 5'1" basket player to dunk against Yao Ming.
Yeah, if you actually read the law in the NCLB and whatever its successor is, you can see it's pretty much a money grab. The publishers put in this poison pill, where schools and teachers have to show AYP ("adequately yearly progress") every year, or else they're required to throw all of this money at technology programs from the publishers. If the kids going through the pipeline manage to do worse on the test two years on a row, schools are required to buy stuff, or they lose their federal funding (which isn't that much to begin with, just about 12% for most schools' budgets).
The reason that languages fragmented in the past was that populations were fragmented and rarely communicated. That is not the case today. Increasingly concentrated mass media in English will cause accents and dialects of English to converge. Mind you, the root English will also evolve over hundreds and thousands of years, but eventually, everyone will speak this root English.
That may have been true for a brief period over the last 50 years of broadcast TV. It used to be like, "OMG, the President is on! He's on EVERY CHANNEL! I'm gonna miss Mr. Ed!" But not all content comes out of Hollywood anymore... big productions have increasingly come out of cheaper studios in Vancouver, Australia, "Bollywood", and will continue to expand as the tools get cheaper. With more channels made accessible by the internets, people are becoming more selective and distrustful, pigeonholing themselves in their own little cultural niche with content that matches their precious little worldview. We already have lots of people rejecting the "mainstream" liberal media, or conversely religious or conservative programming. People tune off a channel as soon as they hear rap music, or country drawl, or BBC / Harvard lecture documentary. People do this to themselves to distinguish themselves from "those people", and it's only going to get easier.
Sure, global corporate English will be sought after by many to participate in trade and commerce, but that also seeks to distance itself from the masses so they can quickly tell their own, college-educated ranks from the imposters. College degrees will be harder to attain, and even if you do, your peers will be able to ascertain which sorry decade you got your MBA or BSCS by how dated your buzzwords are to their paradigm shift. Grammar Nazis will still be in no short supply, however.
If a language grows to be dominate most likely it won't be one we currently have, more likely it will be a mish mash of existing languages, similar to what English has become.
"English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.”
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.ala.org/bbooks/bann...
That and politics as usual. Democrats have to push a lot of extra fluff into bills now, so they can "compromise" by removing them... this kind of exercise helps keep the Republicans from targeting stuff they actually want to keep, while earning brownie points for both teams with their respective bases.
Historically the US economy has done well with a (D) President and an (R) Congress. So just sit back and relax and try to minimize administrative overhead while they sneak through the next pork barrel under all of the fuss.
Have you seen a PC in the past 5 years that would honestly count as "game-changing"? Neither have I. Everything is an iterative step now.
Really. I've been looking for something like this since for projects 2009. The nVidia ION nano-ITX reference platform looked perfect, but NOBODY ever made it for sale:
http://hothardware.com/reviews...
I did evaluate a Fit-PC2 , but it was too badly hobbled by the binary blob video driver. Plus, we had some severe issues with SATA that made it almost unusable with an SSD.
I'm glad CompuLab is trying an AMD version of this form factor. My only worry is with the AMD/ATi video, but it's been a long time since I had been burned by the ATi 7500 All-in-Wonder, which never received any of the OSS treatment promised from ATi (though it had great support from the GATOS project).
In the mean time, for both work and my home server, I ended up going with mini-ITX nVidia ION boxes, which were fast and flexible enough to build decent shoebox / piggyback PCs with full compiz compositing and could run just about any x86 software short of virtualization.
That said, just picked up the $100 HP Stream 7 tablet last month, and am liking it. I think that could possibly be some sort of game-changer, esp. once someone figures out how to bootstrap Linux on it, or maybe even if it's stuck with Win8.1
The $35 Raspberry Pi doesn't come with a power supply, or a case, or any storage. That stuff adds up... display, peripherals, HDMI cable... Most little projects I could think of doing as a Pi project would be better served with an old (or even a cheap new) android phone/tablet, which would also include a touchscreen, wifi, bluetooth, audio, camera, power supply for not much more.
For any kind of embedded use, I think an arduino would do better. For any kind of small computer kiosk, I think a tablet or even an old EeePC netbook would do better than even a Banana Pi. I'm glad the Pi exists, but wish I could find some use for my Pi... The best I can come up with so far is a portable BSOD screensaver for any random monitor I might walk up to in public, but I have a feeling one of those HDMI stick PCs would be better suited for that.
They have bow wow, woof woof, bwahahahaha
What we have?
Dogs do have curses. After listening to some neighborhood dogs bark at each other, I repeated one of their phrases to a dog I was friends with. He snarled at me. Couldn't get that response with any other barking pattern I tried.
It went something like "ruff, woofa".
Typo... the link says it's the Model X SUV that's presold-out for 2015. So you only have to wait months for an S Sedan.
Oh, this? https://www.facebook.com/TheRe...
I don't think I read that in quite the same way... it sounds like his main point is that Ferguson was essentially an unfortunate confrontation between asshole cops and asshole teens, and we shouldn't let an episode of "when assholes collide" dominate the national debate between law enforcement and minorities. It's not fair to our black friends and it's not fair to our cop friends (especially the ones who are not assholes).
That said, there's a lot of work we have to do from both sides to help improve race relations and authoritarian abuse of power, to provide good examples of how people ought to treat each other. The media portrayal of both cops and minorities is terrible and serves as a bad example for impressionable youths and law enforcement officials. We ought to figure out some way of giving good role models more media exposure.
I don't wish any member of the US government to be put to death, what I do wish is for these bastards to be stripped of all their wealth and privileges and forced to live in a roach infested studio apartment in the bad section of town. Then I would force them to work as an assistant night fry cook at Walley's Wonderful World of Burgers in Festering Boil, Oklahoma. These people have forgotten, if they ever knew, what the rest of us put up with in order to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. We need to have these people learn what real work looks like.
So, uh, Mike Rowe for President, then? Sounds good, the few political statements he's made have been bipartisan and very well thought out.
Based on most Android and iOS articles I've read on /., this should really be two articles:
1. Apple ships support for Emoji ships, but it's rubbish and no one needs it anyway.
2. Google's amazing new Emoji for is almost ready to ship, revolutionising web browsing on OS X.
3. Firefox announces an filter to remove Emoji from your web experience. Plugin available that converts Emoji to ASCII art.
e.g. OGC Turn your head sideways to the left to see the little wanker.
I would agree with you. Though the educators do need to be cognizant that different children learn different ways, perhaps partly due to their strengths / weaknesses with those 7 character traits, and choose the optimal delivery method from their toolbox for that child. That's the main reason why good teachers are essential in the classroom, the 'universal curriculum' with specific textbooks/TV/computer/ - etc. driven stuff that politicians have always been trying to push on the schools are merely tools.
This topic is pretty relevant to me right now, since I have 2 children that are struggling in school for different reasons. The boy is bright and picks things up fast, but has quite severe motivational problems. He takes no pride in the quality of any of his schoolwork, and just rushes through everything and doesn't care about whether it's correct or not. However, he's extremely friendly and social (must be a grandfather gene), but always wants to be the ringleader and has trouble accepting authority and always pushes the envelope for what he can get away with. Now that things have finally gotten real in 7th grade, his grades (which have never been stellar) are finally taking a dive in math, science, and writing, since he'd rather goof off with his friends than pay attention. Now, I was the same way when I was his age, but I did manage to have several experiences that "woke me up" which I unfortunately haven't been able to convey to him... even though I saved all of my Legos for him, I'm afraid I didn't teach him patience and how to follow instructions by allowing him to gradually assemble smaller sets according to the instructions. In 4th grade my mother taught me to take pride in my work simply by showing me a new technique to neatly "color within the lines" in a coloring book. In 6th grade I needed a behavior contract with rewards (video games) for consistently maintaining good behavior (which have worked quite successfully on my son, but only for breaking certain habits). But at this point he's lost so many privileges that he just goes to bed sleeps most of the time after he comes home, like a depression.
We'd just chalk it up to bad parenting if it wasn't for the girl, who definitely has "grit" and a lot of the other essential character attributes. Her problem is simply some reasonably severe dyslexia that she got from parts of our family, which set her behind in reading for a few years. She has a bunch of accommodations and organizational aids from her elementary school now, and that is certainly helping her tread water, even though it takes her much, much longer to process and complete any kind of schoolwork. However, once she makes it "over the hump" with basic literacy proficiency, it looks like she'll probably take off.
Anyway, we're certainly very interested in hearing any advice and anecdotes anyone has about dealing with disaffected youth to motivate our son to give a damn about school. He's already in one of the best public middle schools in the country (it's pretty high up on http://www.thebestschools.org/... ), so it's not because he's bored or isn't challenged with the work or peer groups. This article is helpful pointing out some things that might be missing from his upbringing, but we could always use more reading and advice before we seek professional help (which we're about to do soon).
</ yeah, first world problems >
Funny you came right after the "Natalie Portman's hot grit trolls" AC... that used to be a staple of /. Whatever happened? Not that I ever got the original meme.
Well, not just whatever's convenient but entirely rational. Accepting that AGW is occurring means we ought to do something about it, and that something will probably cost money. But even by the worst projections, climate change won't have any catastrophic impact on most of our lives within our lifespan. Conservatives have made it clear that they have no interest in spending money to fix other people's problems. Environmentalists seem to think that they might be able to change their minds with more data, but I'm pretty sure that's a waste of time. Even if the Earth came with a big thermometer with a redline that stated "if exceeded, everyone pay $100,000 to deal with refugees from low-lying coastal areas", conservatives would still refuse to participate in any conservation efforts, or even acknowledge that AGW is a factor. Rule #1 of absconding financial responsibility is: never admit fault.
I'm sure they'd gladly throw money at a military solution to the refugee crisis, though.
Eh, I'll try it when they find a way to finally reintroduce female characters without it turning into some misogynistic sausage-fest.
~ censor.nudity false
http://www.penny-arcade.com/co...
This. Give your devs slower laptops, and watch how fast they manage to migrate all of their DB/test VMs to the cloud.
If you really want a portable test rig for offline demos or whatever, throw a bunch of souped-up NUCs at it or something.
Yeah, this... I got a Macbook Pro late last year to use as a dev box. I did manage to learn some of the dazzling array of shortcut keys and got used to their touchpad gestures somewhat quickly. But the thing gets hot pretty fast, and I can already hear the fan starting to grind and struggle a bit. It gets hotter than the i7 Lenovo z710 I bought for my wife last year.
To be fair, the Lenovo has lots of other problems... they threw in the crappy Intel AC 7260 wifi/bluetooth chip, which just plain didn't work (it simply drops the connection every 5-30 minutes, and is terrible maintaining connections with any sort of distance and congestion - my wife has had to resort to plugging in to the wired ethernet in the basement to actually get any work done). Supposedly Intel finally released a HW rev that addresses some of the issues, I need to try to contact Lenovo to see if they'll replace it in warranty. Also, the Lenovo seems to grind to a halt every once in a while for no reason. I replaced the HDD with a nice Samsung 850 SSD, but it still seems to do this. Might be Win8.1 , but Win8.1 seems to work fine on the crappy little HP Stream 7 Atom tablet we just picked up.
So the whole 'hack' was just part of Sony's 'ironic' marketing of this 'funny' movie then?
Unlikely.
As the Coca-Cola execs admitted after the whole "New Coke" / "Classic Coke" debacle... "we weren't that smart but we weren't that dumb either".
So I can see the PR gone wild scenario happening.
stargate stewardesses databases
Masterful stroke. I applaud your collective efforts.
Not the porn companies. ...
It's a scam, plain and simple.
Yes, I could tell this is a scam because of the headline. If it was really the p0rn companies, it would have read:
"Porn companies are coming for Github"
(...and having seen a lot of pr0n in my days)
This. Yes, the "right" way is just to block YouTube.com entirely.
The way they've implemented it allows you to still read YouTube for the comments (snicker), or maybe edit videos or search and bookmark links to view later. I suppose now they're sorry that they tried to do you a favor.
My understanding is that (under "normal" real estate conditions which we haven't seen for a while now), the break-even point between renting and buying is supposed to be after about 5 years. At that point, you should have made enough money back in tax deductions (it's nearly impossible to beat the standard deduction without a couple $10k in mortgage interest deductions) and appreciation to cover the closing costs, property taxes, etc. vs. renting a place for a similar monthly payment for 5 years.
After that point, the risk should start paying off, especially in the twilight years 25 years later when most of your mortgage payment is going to principal building your equity.
That's so Meta, Even This Acroynm
(since, there oddly isn't any other obligatory xkcd about life on Mars)
http://xkcd.com/917/
The dirty little secret is that we're wasting too much money trying to educate kids that don't give a damn about education and would rather be doing something other than learning.'
Yes, bring back tracking. Your parents don't care, you don't care, you want to be doing something else? Fine, you are done at Grade 6, you can come back to adult ed and the remaining 6 years of education when you want it.
It is highly controversial, but the system worked well. The concept of "no child left behind" is a monstrous lie. All children cannot attain to the same levels. It is cruel to try to force children who do not posses the correct attributes to meet a standard that is designed above their level. It is as mean as asking a 5'1" basket player to dunk against Yao Ming.
Yeah, if you actually read the law in the NCLB and whatever its successor is, you can see it's pretty much a money grab. The publishers put in this poison pill, where schools and teachers have to show AYP ("adequately yearly progress") every year, or else they're required to throw all of this money at technology programs from the publishers. If the kids going through the pipeline manage to do worse on the test two years on a row, schools are required to buy stuff, or they lose their federal funding (which isn't that much to begin with, just about 12% for most schools' budgets).
OOP doesn't want to be anthropomorphized
The reason that languages fragmented in the past was that populations were fragmented and rarely communicated. That is not the case today. Increasingly concentrated mass media in English will cause accents and dialects of English to converge. Mind you, the root English will also evolve over hundreds and thousands of years, but eventually, everyone will speak this root English.
That may have been true for a brief period over the last 50 years of broadcast TV. It used to be like, "OMG, the President is on! He's on EVERY CHANNEL! I'm gonna miss Mr. Ed!" But not all content comes out of Hollywood anymore... big productions have increasingly come out of cheaper studios in Vancouver, Australia, "Bollywood", and will continue to expand as the tools get cheaper. With more channels made accessible by the internets, people are becoming more selective and distrustful, pigeonholing themselves in their own little cultural niche with content that matches their precious little worldview. We already have lots of people rejecting the "mainstream" liberal media, or conversely religious or conservative programming. People tune off a channel as soon as they hear rap music, or country drawl, or BBC / Harvard lecture documentary. People do this to themselves to distinguish themselves from "those people", and it's only going to get easier.
Sure, global corporate English will be sought after by many to participate in trade and commerce, but that also seeks to distance itself from the masses so they can quickly tell their own, college-educated ranks from the imposters. College degrees will be harder to attain, and even if you do, your peers will be able to ascertain which sorry decade you got your MBA or BSCS by how dated your buzzwords are to their paradigm shift. Grammar Nazis will still be in no short supply, however.
If a language grows to be dominate most likely it won't be one we currently have, more likely it will be a mish mash of existing languages, similar to what English has become.
"English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.”