1 -- the article is a content-free advert for Whitebirch's financial toolkit
2 -- Excel is an incredibly powerful and important piece of software which many if not most large corps can't do without. There is no alternative to it. The fact that it's unpleasant to use is beside the point -- nobody has been able to come up with a better (or even comparable) replacement. In my experience, there is a large segment of the IT community that is pathologically unable to focus on business needs enough to understand this.
The question is not 'is it worth spending x dollars and y effort to put a man on Mars when we could explore space in other ways', because that hasn't happened and there is no particular reason to suppose it's going to happen.
The question is, 'is it worth spending x dollars and y effort on boosting an election campaign by messing around with NASA when we could look visionary in other ways'.
I'd say not. They could have made any number of far-fetched plans that don't cost money or show results for a decade -- but they had to pick the one that involves screwing space research _now_:(
"There are an increasing number of companies developing software that aren't software companies."
Most software is developed by companies that drill oil, build widgets, sell things or move money around. Companies that actually _specialize_ in software, like Adobe, are a rarity (but getting more common).
Once, recently enough that I can just barely remember it, there were no software companies -- most software was developed by the organization that used it, and some was developed by hardware vendors like IBM. Then, in the 70's, companies that just made software began to emerge. But it's still the case that most software development is done outside of 'the software industry'.
(dozes off in armchair by the fire, mumbling about young people these days)
What happens if you try to install Japanese Office 2K on English XP?
It works, assuming you have a font. Not surprising, since I was able to type Chinese and Japanese on the same Windows machine back when Linux had trouble with the concept of a character more than 1 byte long (much of it still does, and yes, I have used KDE in Japanese).
I also remember discovering MacOS Language Kits. Compared to just installing relevant fonts on Windows and being ready to go, it did _not_ impress. Thank the lord OSX FINALLY understands Unicode (mostly).
Morph as a _root_ is very old (we're talking at least a couple of millenia here),
Considering that it's greek, it's presumably just a tad older than that.
but I don't remember its being used as a verb in the English language in its current sense much before the early-to-mid nineties.
In a 'Mathematical Recreations' column by A K Dewdney in 1986, I think it's used in the current sense but as a noun -- that usage seems not to have lasted.
The etymology of "morph" is of course straightforward, and we've had other words in the English language that use the root for a while (e.g. morphology, metamorphosis,...), but the question is about "morph" as a word with its current meaning.
I know. I understand the question, I understand etymology (better than you, at least), and I can remember the use of 'morph' as a verb in the present sense from before the 90s. I am taking the time to reply because I like sneering at people who write content-free _yet patronizing_ posts (hey, everyone's got to have a hobby.) The phenomenon of completely uninformed but very confident advice, often terribly well meant, has a strange and ghastly fascination for me.
Japan's military budget is huge, but it's so oriented toward providing jobs for key voters and corporate welfare that it makes the US look like a lean mean efficiency machine by comparison. Of that huge defence budget, less than half goes on things with any direct connection to actual fighting -- and even what is spent on maintaining combat units is mainly a matter of keeping Japanese people out of the unemployment office at high (ie Japanese) wages.
Really, military spending is not the same as budget figures. It would be better to say that Japan chooses to route more of its corporate welfare through the defence area than the UK does, and that it cares more about keeping people with no useful skills employed than the US does.
I don't know if I agree (in my experience, most outsourcers in poorer countries are in a far better position than American labor of the early 20th century) but that was a well-put argument.
Building a transaction application that can handle 500-1000 moderately complex transactions (update/insert) per second is hard..NET can't handle it, or atleast I all the cases I've heard of in the financial industry failed miserably. If you're in this industry you already know. If you're not, you're probably saying "what bs,.net can scale just as well."
Well, I am in that industry, and.NET seems to scale well to that sort of level. The problem is that it's only available on Windows and therefore not available on really big machines and clusters. That can certainly be a decisive factor. But on machines of a given size, it compares well to Java and adequately to C++.
Now, when/if Mono matures, maybe there _will_ be a.NET for really big machines. That'd be great. Until then,.NET tends to be limited to what you can do on Windows.
I know a dozen other people have probably already said this, but if you think that question measures whether someone is an effective C++ programmer then the problem is with you.
It's a neat trick and the last bit (where default params are resolved based on static type while method calls are resolved based on dynamic type) fooled me. But it has nothing whatever to do with a software engineer's job, unless that job is writing C++ compilers.
Put away your book of trick questions and hire a C++ programmer who understands patterns, algorithms, project management, requirements, and important standards and protocols.
Hm, it's true that he was not one of the Aesir, but you don't actually _have_ to be Aesir to be a god -- Njordr, god of the sea, was one of the Vanir.
In Snorri Sturluson's well-known version, Loki is satan-like and Baldr is Christ-like, but that is by no means the only version... and even then there are places where Loki is honest and gets ripped off by the other gods.
I'd agree that Loki is worshipped only by a small group of very, very pathetic people whose web pages have black backgrounds and who spell 'magic' with a 'k':)
Do you even know how the fishing rights were decided?
I do. Since your parents seem not to, here's a link:
http://www.bullen.demon.co.uk/cibcfp.htm
(Facts are correct but writer seems generally somewhat pro-British)
Basically Heath gave the UK's fisheries away to the other EEC (as it then was) countries as a bribe, but without telling his actual people. Nice even by EU standards.
It's not because you're insular (which you are) or xenophobic (which you aren't) -- it's because most UK cits realize that what they think and do matters not at all to European politicians.
In other words, they (the apathetic sheep) have a reasonable and correct worldview whereas you are kind of cute but sad, like a little mouse that says it will protect its parent mice from the evil cat.
Now hush up and give us all your fishing rights -- oh, you already have.
You can indeed install it -- the result is a kind of Debian-lite installation. It's probably better to install real Debian once Knoppix has led the way; installed Knoppix has some quirks, such as a tendency to read things from the CD image on the HD now and then.
A domestic robot that walks on two legs could be on the market at 500,000 yen per unit early next year. Robot development venture ZMP has teamed up with major sports equipment company Mizuno to develop the Nuvo, it was revealed on the 2nd.
Bipedal robots such as Sony's Qrio and Honda's Asimo have already appeared but offerings directed at the general public have been rare.
Nuvo stands 39 cm high and weighs 2.5 kg. It can walk forward, back, left and right and if it falls over it can get up no matter which way up it is. It has a conversational vocabulary of nearly 1,000 words, and can obey an instruction to bow or dance.
The face contains an built-in camera. Using a 3rd generation NTT DoCoMo mobile phone the user can see through the robot's eye, so it can even fuction as a remote-controlled 'guard robot'.
Price was kept low by reducing the amount of expensive-to-develop joints. The makers hope to sell upwards of 3000 units in the first year.
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Too late to karma whore, but I like translating things...
'Plaugerists'? Now, if he'd accused them of plagiarism he might have had a point, but to accuse them of supporting Dinkumware is a bizarre move indeed!
Curse those plaugerists, with their Standard Template Libraries and their cheery Australian charm...
It's certainly hard (and rare) to get a tech start-up going in the Silicon Valley sense (which is why Japan is starting to lose manufacturing business to Korea -- check out the mp3 player market). But I don't think the overall situation is nearly as bad as you suggest. I tend to think of it as being roughly like 60s or 70s America (in this sphere -- in most other ways its caught up and is just as boring as everywhere else).
Now, try starting a company as a woman (or foreigner, I sometimes feel) in Korea:) They just can't grasp that you're really trying to do it.
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1 -- the article is a content-free advert for Whitebirch's financial toolkit
2 -- Excel is an incredibly powerful and important piece of software which many if not most large corps can't do without. There is no alternative to it. The fact that it's unpleasant to use is beside the point -- nobody has been able to come up with a better (or even comparable) replacement. In my experience, there is a large segment of the IT community that is pathologically unable to focus on business needs enough to understand this.
The question is not 'is it worth spending x dollars and y effort to put a man on Mars when we could explore space in other ways', because that hasn't happened and there is no particular reason to suppose it's going to happen.
:(
The question is, 'is it worth spending x dollars and y effort on boosting an election campaign by messing around with NASA when we could look visionary in other ways'.
I'd say not. They could have made any number of far-fetched plans that don't cost money or show results for a decade -- but they had to pick the one that involves screwing space research _now_
"There are an increasing number of companies developing software that aren't software companies."
Most software is developed by companies that drill oil, build widgets, sell things or move money around. Companies that actually _specialize_ in software, like Adobe, are a rarity (but getting more common).
Once, recently enough that I can just barely remember it, there were no software companies -- most software was developed by the organization that used it, and some was developed by hardware vendors like IBM. Then, in the 70's, companies that just made software began to emerge. But it's still the case that most software development is done outside of 'the software industry'.
(dozes off in armchair by the fire, mumbling about young people these days)
What happens if you try to install Japanese Office 2K on English XP?
It works, assuming you have a font. Not surprising, since I was able to type Chinese and Japanese on the same Windows machine back when Linux had trouble with the concept of a character more than 1 byte long (much of it still does, and yes, I have used KDE in Japanese).
I also remember discovering MacOS Language Kits. Compared to just installing relevant fonts on Windows and being ready to go, it did _not_ impress. Thank the lord OSX FINALLY understands Unicode (mostly).
You _do_ realize that MS is the _only_ vendor to even take a shot at supporting ruby (the typography, not the language) in Japanese?
You mean the safe is made of a flaky, crumbly substance that can easily be broken with a hammer and tends to rub off onto nearby objects?
Wow... cool.
Morph as a _root_ is very old (we're talking at least a couple of millenia
...), but the question is about "morph" as a word with its
here),
Considering that it's greek, it's presumably just a tad older than that.
but I don't remember its being used as a verb in the English language
in its current sense much before the early-to-mid nineties.
In a 'Mathematical Recreations' column by A K Dewdney in 1986, I think it's used in the current sense but as a noun -- that usage seems not to have lasted.
The etymology of "morph" is of course straightforward, and we've had other
words in the English language that use the root for a while (e.g. morphology,
metamorphosis,
current meaning.
I know. I understand the question, I understand etymology (better than you, at least), and I can remember the use of 'morph' as a verb in the present sense from before the 90s. I am taking the time to reply because I like sneering at people who write content-free _yet patronizing_ posts (hey, everyone's got to have a hobby.) The phenomenon of completely uninformed but very confident advice, often terribly well meant, has a strange and ghastly fascination for me.
Good grief, is _this_ all it takes to teach at Harvard?
The 'unfounded statement' you mention
1: is a question, not a statement
2: contains no assumptions about the number of any kind of patents being granted
You are _not_ good enough for a community college. You badly need to understand basic logic. Ick.
Japan's military budget is huge, but it's so oriented toward providing jobs for key voters and corporate welfare that it makes the US look like a lean mean efficiency machine by comparison. Of that huge defence budget, less than half goes on things with any direct connection to actual fighting -- and even what is spent on maintaining combat units is mainly a matter of keeping Japanese people out of the unemployment office at high (ie Japanese) wages.
Really, military spending is not the same as budget figures. It would be better to say that Japan chooses to route more of its corporate welfare through the defence area than the UK does, and that it cares more about keeping people with no useful skills employed than the US does.
I can remember this word (in the sense of transform into another shape) from Scientific American articles of the late 80s. I wonder if that counts.
I don't know if I agree (in my experience, most outsourcers in poorer countries are in a far better position than American labor of the early 20th century) but that was a well-put argument.
Building a transaction application that can handle 500-1000 moderately complex transactions (update/insert) per second is hard. .NET can't handle it, or atleast I all the cases I've heard of in the financial industry failed miserably. If you're in this industry you already know. If you're not, you're probably saying "what bs, .net can scale just as well."
.NET seems to scale well to that sort of level. The problem is that it's only available on Windows and therefore not available on really big machines and clusters. That can certainly be a decisive factor. But on machines of a given size, it compares well to Java and adequately to C++.
.NET for really big machines. That'd be great. Until then, .NET tends to be limited to what you can do on Windows.
Well, I am in that industry, and
Now, when/if Mono matures, maybe there _will_ be a
I know a dozen other people have probably already said this, but if you think that question measures whether someone is an effective C++ programmer then the problem is with you.
It's a neat trick and the last bit (where default params are resolved based on static type while method calls are resolved based on dynamic type) fooled me. But it has nothing whatever to do with a software engineer's job, unless that job is writing C++ compilers.
Put away your book of trick questions and hire a C++ programmer who understands patterns, algorithms, project management, requirements, and important standards and protocols.
Hm, it's true that he was not one of the Aesir, but you don't actually _have_ to be Aesir to be a god -- Njordr, god of the sea, was one of the Vanir.
In Snorri Sturluson's well-known version, Loki is satan-like and Baldr is Christ-like, but that is by no means the only version... and even then there are places where Loki is honest and gets ripped off by the other gods.
I'd agree that Loki is worshipped only by a small group of very, very pathetic people whose web pages have black backgrounds and who spell 'magic' with a 'k'
Do you even know how the fishing rights were decided?
I do. Since your parents seem not to, here's a link:
http://www.bullen.demon.co.uk/cibcfp.htm
(Facts are correct but writer seems generally somewhat pro-British)
Basically Heath gave the UK's fisheries away to the other EEC (as it then was) countries as a bribe, but without telling his actual people. Nice even by EU standards.
It's not because you're insular (which you are) or xenophobic (which you aren't) -- it's because most UK cits realize that what they think and do matters not at all to European politicians.
In other words, they (the apathetic sheep) have a reasonable and correct worldview whereas you are kind of cute but sad, like a little mouse that says it will protect its parent mice from the evil cat.
Now hush up and give us all your fishing rights -- oh, you already have.
Not good with rejection, huh?
Of course, you _could_ have just gone away and learned something. But why bother when whining is so easy?
Sigh.
The particle wa (hiragana ha) is a suffix appended to the *subject* of the sentence
It's appended to the topic, not the subject.
As it stands, the sentence says that the Japanese language doesn't talk much.
No, it doesn't. It is correct. The 'o' version sounds less natural to me.
Please learn things and THEN post about them. You are doing it the other way around.
Languages are born as quickly as they die, my friend.
:)
No, they aren't. That's why the number of live languages is decreasing quite rapidly.
I love the way you put that patronizing 'my freind' on the end of a completely mindless statement, though
Hey, you're the only amateur translator other than me who got the 'joints' part right!
There should be a community for amateur Japanese translation -- it'd be good to get some feedback and corrections.
You can indeed install it -- the result is a kind of Debian-lite installation. It's probably better to install real Debian once Knoppix has led the way; installed Knoppix has some quirks, such as a tendency to read things from the CD image on the HD now and then.
A domestic robot that walks on two legs could be on the market at 500,000 yen per unit early next year. Robot development venture ZMP has teamed up with major sports equipment company Mizuno to develop the Nuvo, it was revealed on the 2nd.
Bipedal robots such as Sony's Qrio and Honda's Asimo have already appeared but offerings directed at the general public have been rare.
Nuvo stands 39 cm high and weighs 2.5 kg. It can walk forward, back, left and right and if it falls over it can get up no matter which way up it is. It has a conversational vocabulary of nearly 1,000 words, and can obey an instruction to bow or dance.
The face contains an built-in camera. Using a 3rd generation NTT DoCoMo mobile phone the user can see through the robot's eye, so it can even fuction as a remote-controlled 'guard robot'.
Price was kept low by reducing the amount of expensive-to-develop joints. The makers hope to sell upwards of 3000 units in the first year.
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Too late to karma whore, but I like translating things...
'Plaugerists'? Now, if he'd accused them of plagiarism he might have had a point, but to accuse them of supporting Dinkumware is a bizarre move indeed!
Curse those plaugerists, with their Standard Template Libraries and their cheery Australian charm...
Like many other posters, though, I don't think China could get away with this, because of the WTO.
That's so cute! I wish I had a camera.
It's certainly hard (and rare) to get a tech start-up going in the Silicon Valley sense (which is why Japan is starting to lose manufacturing business to Korea -- check out the mp3 player market). But I don't think the overall situation is nearly as bad as you suggest. I tend to think of it as being roughly like 60s or 70s America (in this sphere -- in most other ways its caught up and is just as boring as everywhere else).
Now, try starting a company as a woman (or foreigner, I sometimes feel) in Korea