That would be arguable if "virus" were a 2nd declension noun. It's not. It's 4th declension and its plural is "virus" with a long u. And "-ii" is only the plural of 2nd declension nouns ending in "-ius", not "-us" as "virus" does.
Thank you for posting this. School is a place for learning, and should not be a place where kids need to worry about their physical safety. For some students, it is the only such place in their lives, and the key to escaping an unhealty situation.
The reason to fund experimental art is because it's experimental. It's very difficult to know what will lead to work of lasting value, but casting a wide net gives you a better chance of producing something new and great than focusing on things that are as similar as possible to what you've seen before. Do artists take themselves too seriously? Many of them do. But you could say the same of many scientists and engineers.
That's a very good point, especially for verbs. The limited set of letters used in the various inflectional endings does constrain the later words in the square somewhat, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. And English certainly doesn't have the same letter frequency at both ends of the word.
Well, my Groves' Greek and English dictionary (1859) has 613 pages of (very roughly) 90 entries each, which is 55,170, within an order of magnitude of the offerred 20,000. I'm sure better sources exist, but it's probably safe to say that the full surviving corpus of Ancient Greek has significantly fewer words than the corpus of Modern English. (Insert "Melt With You" joke here.) It's a benefit of having a global, literate, society with billions of speakers.
I've always thought of the prisoners in the Prisoner's Dilemma as being political prisoners of some sort, whose crime is nebulous, and who cannot trust the authorities to be just. Fair, yes, but not just.
MIT's "traditional gender bias" isn't a matter of male-female ratio. It's a matter of how women are treated in the individual departments, and the effect that has on the Institute as a whole. I know a woman who was hounded out of science as a field, and another whose thesis committee did everything in their power to get her to give up. You are correct that it is very difficult for an engineering school to get a gender-balanced student body. However, I feel I should point out that some institutions do a better job of it than others.
There are women in fields like construction and mining. They encounter prejudice and harrasment there, too. So yes, you do "see them complaining about this" (i.e. see women proving themselves in male-dominated fields) if you open your eyes.
How can he say that ASP.NET is great? As someone using it full-time, I can see how it's very good if you want to rapidly create data-driven sites by using MS dev tools that look pretty much how you designed them in IE. But is you want to have direct control of the HTML of your product, ASP.NET makes it very hard on you.
There are bills, S.1980 and H.R.2239, aimed at requiring this. If you're an American citizen, contacting your representatives about this could help a lot.
I fail to see what the fact that "she was a) a lawyer, b) an elected representative, and c) a manager" has to to with literary criticism. Are you under the impression that lit crit is a common topic in the court rooms, legislatures, and boardrooms of the world?
Or are you just confusing "literary criticism" and "difficult to understand?"
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Heh. Virusoj is nice. Viir is amusing, too. I once gave successive loop variables the names index, iindex, iiindex, and ivndex.
I don't know, it seems like a nice location. Quiet, with no parameters to come in and mess up the place. Might end up being a bit static, though.
That would be arguable if "virus" were a 2nd declension noun. It's not. It's 4th declension and its plural is "virus" with a long u. And "-ii" is only the plural of 2nd declension nouns ending in "-ius", not "-us" as "virus" does.
Thank you for posting this. School is a place for learning, and should not be a place where kids need to worry about their physical safety. For some students, it is the only such place in their lives, and the key to escaping an unhealty situation.
I like that you can see Penny Arcade's Strawberry Shortcake strip make a big enough splash to notably affect searches on "strawberry":r awberry&ctab=1&geo=all&date=2004
http://www.google.com/trends?q=penny+arcade%2C+st
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IIRC, this comes up in the DVD commentary for Fellowship Of The Ring. It's on the actor's commentary, during the credits.
Ugh, no. It's a form of "Argumentum ad Verecundiam" but you can call it "Argumentum ad Lexicon" if you like.
The reason to fund experimental art is because it's experimental. It's very difficult to know what will lead to work of lasting value, but casting a wide net gives you a better chance of producing something new and great than focusing on things that are as similar as possible to what you've seen before. Do artists take themselves too seriously? Many of them do. But you could say the same of many scientists and engineers.
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Short version: Nobody succeeded in breaking in.
Plenty of folks in the States had ZX81s/TS1000s, too. They were advertised in magazines and sold in stores like K-Mart.
That's a very good point, especially for verbs. The limited set of letters used in the various inflectional endings does constrain the later words in the square somewhat, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. And English certainly doesn't have the same letter frequency at both ends of the word.
Well, my Groves' Greek and English dictionary (1859) has 613 pages of (very roughly) 90 entries each, which is 55,170, within an order of magnitude of the offerred 20,000. I'm sure better sources exist, but it's probably safe to say that the full surviving corpus of Ancient Greek has significantly fewer words than the corpus of Modern English. (Insert "Melt With You" joke here.) It's a benefit of having a global, literate, society with billions of speakers.
This is the exact reason given by Carl Sagan (in Pale Blue Dot, I think) not to prepare for an asteroid impact.
I knew that Wil Wheaton was a Slashdot reader. I must admit I'm surprised to see that Jason Mewes is. Welcome to Slashdot, Jay!
I've always thought of the prisoners in the Prisoner's Dilemma as being political prisoners of some sort, whose crime is nebulous, and who cannot trust the authorities to be just. Fair, yes, but not just.
MIT's "traditional gender bias" isn't a matter of male-female ratio. It's a matter of how women are treated in the individual departments, and the effect that has on the Institute as a whole. I know a woman who was hounded out of science as a field, and another whose thesis committee did everything in their power to get her to give up.
You are correct that it is very difficult for an engineering school to get a gender-balanced student body. However, I feel I should point out that some institutions do a better job of it than others.
There are women in fields like construction and mining. They encounter prejudice and harrasment there, too. So yes, you do "see them complaining about this" (i.e. see women proving themselves in male-dominated fields) if you open your eyes.
How can he say that ASP.NET is great? As someone using it full-time, I can see how it's very good if you want to rapidly create data-driven sites by using MS dev tools that look pretty much how you designed them in IE. But is you want to have direct control of the HTML of your product, ASP.NET makes it very hard on you.
I know people who worship Roman gods, and I don't live in Berkeley or even California. Maybe you should get out more. :)
There are bills, S.1980 and H.R.2239, aimed at requiring this. If you're an American citizen, contacting your representatives about this could help a lot.
I fail to see what the fact that "she was a) a lawyer, b) an elected representative, and c) a manager" has to to with literary criticism. Are you under the impression that lit crit is a common topic in the court rooms, legislatures, and boardrooms of the world?
Or are you just confusing "literary criticism" and "difficult to understand?"
If some gamer buys this, please work with some dice company to make replicas available. Thanks.
Actually, the 2nd declension masculine vocative singular is a short e. There is a macron over the u, though.
I think it's odder that it takes 4 results until you get a reference to Jenny.