You "translate" when you convert one language to another, for example during translation into French you will be replacing the English word "mother" with its French equivalent "mère".
However "transliterating" is different. Both English and French use the same letter M for the sound at the beginning of "mother." As it happens so does Cyrillic use the same letter M. This is not guaranteed for all letters though and with a different example "father" Cyrillic uses a circle with a vertical stroke through it for the sound at the beginning.
Because the Russians have no native words for many modern concepts and computer terms they are happy to borrow from other languages. Russians use the word "online" in the same sense that we do. Although when you actually hear a Russian speak that word it sounds more like "orn-layeen".
I've been experimenting with Sleep as Android which uses your phone's accelerometer to measure your physical movements and thus your mental state during sleep, When it detects REM sleep it plays an audio loop "you are dreaming". Not managed to do anything exciting in my dreams yet but looks promising to me.
"Too much choice" might be a real argument in some contexts (such as Linux desktop) but certainly not in the world of Android phones.
Most people don't flash a custom ROM or change the launcher. Literally everyone I know just accepts (and grumbles about) whatever configuration the vendor burnt in at the factory. The more adventurous ones just possibly might create a custom wallpaper or ringtone but that's it.
Unbelievably some don't even know they can install apps, or do know but avoid doing so "in case I mess anything up". Quite rightly they understand that they hold in their hand a complex computer for which they will get absolutely no assistance to fix anything they do which stops it working.
Put your handbrake on if your vehicle is stationary. It is politeness for the guy behind you, so you are not shining a bright red light in his eyes for 45 seconds. Also if someone rear-ends you, and you are forced forward to hit the car in front, then your insurance company WILL ding you for it.
When it comes to coding I am not what you call professional; I have always manually saved everything with file extensions like.works_except_for_that_bit or.saved_this_copy_before_changing_FooModule
Finally I thought I should try to get with version control but I could not even use Subversion. What a nightmare. All my code kept disappearing, I lost things, stuff I thought had vanished so I did it again then the original came back. Also you have to learn entirely new concepts what the hell does checking out mean. I am sure nothing wrong with the software but when you need to get some code finished who has time to climb some other learning curve.
When you send a text message you have no guarantee of delivery time. In many cases it will reach the recipient in just a few seconds but you do not know that for sure. It could get there immediately, after an hour, after two days, who knows. I have had messages take longer than one week to arrive.
So the sender cannot know if the message will get delivered at the same time that the recipient is driving.
Llama does not necessarily work for solving this kind of problem. No disrespect intended to the app itself but success depends entirely on the quality of signal that it happens to be receiving at any one time from several local base stations. Maybe the local cellular topology will work for you, maybe not. I tried and failed to have it detect the "I just left the office" and the "I'm at home now" conditions.
For the last 60 years or so the main medical system in this country has been government-operated and paid for via taxation. It has its faults but people generally agree it is a good idea and nobody from any political group wants to see it gone. Minor fees exist for some things but in general all medical care is free at the point of use. If it costs 200K to cure your rare cancer then you still get the treatment without charge.
The average UK person does not know that much about America. I could stop someone in the street at random and would be a good chance they could not name your two main political parties for example, or know which one Obama belongs to. People do know that there was historically no public medical system and think it's very creepy that when Americans get sick and don't have money they just get left in the street to die. Nobody understands why there is so much opposition to having a proper health service now that Obama has passed this law.
No real point to this post except a FYI how it looks from outside USA.
I am not keen on the light from people's screens but I can tolerate that so long as doesn't get too ridiculous. What I really hate though is people yakking all the time, whether into their phones or to the guy in the next seat. How come the movie theatre is not able to broadcast the sound channel somehow so you can take along your favourite wireless headphones? You can get a really nice bluetooth stereo headset for not much money.
They already have phase 1 of this in place, when you use 3G/mobile data. There is an automatic block on adult sites but this doesn't necessarily mean porn - half the internet is filtered out and it gets very annoying very quickly. Sites with no obvious "adult" nature are inaccessible until you agree to opt-in by allowing the cellphone company to bill a token sum to your credit card to prove you are over 18. Then all your problems go away.
And that is what they really want i.e. to be able to identify the user. Without that I would be just another anonymous prepaid. I'm sure the same will be along eventually for public wi-fi.
It's about fire safety. If the plane crashes and I'm wearing this season's fashionable new look "shirt soaked in spilled jet fuel" then I really really do hope you damn well turned off your electrical gadgets.
What I see almost every day are DJs with headphones plugged into their laptop and it sounds fine to them. The same track out there on the dancefloor sounds like a horrific wall of distortion. As I understand it lossy compression depends on a "psychoacoustic" trick - maybe this doesn't work if you can hear both stereo channels with both ears. Or something. All I know it sounds truly dreadful and I am no audiophile.
Most people are not interested in most jobs. If mo' robotz mean those people could just stop doing the job completely (but still get paid) then I believe they would be happy to do that. Of course if the people don't get somehow paid then they will be spending zero thus failing to consume the products manufactured by the robots and thereby wrecking the economy.
Some people will still want to perform some jobs because they are not in it purely for the money and love doing whatever it is.
Suppose you don't like to eat dog shit but everyone else does. You really can't understand their crazy (to you) preferences but in a spirit of tolerance you let them eat their dog shit but you certainly don't want any yourself. Now tell me you are OK with your food being cooked on the dog shit grill and being smeared with bits of dog shit?
It's a shame none of these disk encryption systems can use hardware (USB token for example) as part of the crypto. Then pulling out the token would remove the key, at least if the software behaved itself correctly with no caching. Truecrypt does go halfway in the sense that the hash of a file stored in hardware can form part of the key but it would be nice to see it done properly.
My first language is UK English and I too faced the same "which next language to learn?" choice. After a lot of thought I chose Russian. China is such a massive trading partner and I can understand the arguments for selecting a Chinese language but the truth is that learning a language takes time and you have to predict what will be useful in the future rather than what would be useful right now. I've been amazed at the high quality of our outsourced Java development from Russia and and I'm betting that it can't be long before they get tired of China/India taking everything and themselves emerge as a prime supplier of both outsourcing and physical resources. Also Luuseens is right there is a lot of useful technical stuff posted in Russian and it's helpful to read it directly rather than auto-translate.
I've been learning Russian for four years mostly by self-study of free learning material found on the internet. I am nowhere near fluent for a workplace but I'll get there. Yes Russian is "hard" from the point of view of being unlike English but on the plus side its internal structure is so consistently logical that it almost feels like just learning another computer language. My friend at the local office of a major software company does speak four languages fluently (including Russian and Mandarin) and it's beyond doubt this has been a major boost to her career so why not also for the rest of us.
I can't help feeling that "topological conductor" would be a better name for a material that behaves as an insulator in its interior but whose surface can conduct.
There is something wrong with this argument but my mind won't tell me what it is. Why do the publishers think people like you should read the full article if you are perfectly happy to read only an excerpt? In fact why don't the publishers save time by only publishing the excerpt (since people don't bother with the full article.) Of course Google would not able to show you this excerpt so instead would have to display a link to "mystery news".
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Well actually this is a WWW site, it's called a "World Wide" web for a reason you know.
You "translate" when you convert one language to another, for example during translation into French you will be replacing the English word "mother" with its French equivalent "mère". However "transliterating" is different. Both English and French use the same letter M for the sound at the beginning of "mother." As it happens so does Cyrillic use the same letter M. This is not guaranteed for all letters though and with a different example "father" Cyrillic uses a circle with a vertical stroke through it for the sound at the beginning. Because the Russians have no native words for many modern concepts and computer terms they are happy to borrow from other languages. Russians use the word "online" in the same sense that we do. Although when you actually hear a Russian speak that word it sounds more like "orn-layeen".
Thanks found and bought a used copy very cheap, 4 quid delivered to UK.
I've been experimenting with Sleep as Android which uses your phone's accelerometer to measure your physical movements and thus your mental state during sleep, When it detects REM sleep it plays an audio loop "you are dreaming". Not managed to do anything exciting in my dreams yet but looks promising to me.
"Too much choice" might be a real argument in some contexts (such as Linux desktop) but certainly not in the world of Android phones.
Most people don't flash a custom ROM or change the launcher. Literally everyone I know just accepts (and grumbles about) whatever configuration the vendor burnt in at the factory. The more adventurous ones just possibly might create a custom wallpaper or ringtone but that's it.
Unbelievably some don't even know they can install apps, or do know but avoid doing so "in case I mess anything up". Quite rightly they understand that they hold in their hand a complex computer for which they will get absolutely no assistance to fix anything they do which stops it working.
Put your handbrake on if your vehicle is stationary. It is politeness for the guy behind you, so you are not shining a bright red light in his eyes for 45 seconds. Also if someone rear-ends you, and you are forced forward to hit the car in front, then your insurance company WILL ding you for it.
When it comes to coding I am not what you call professional; I have always manually saved everything with file extensions like .works_except_for_that_bit or .saved_this_copy_before_changing_FooModule
Finally I thought I should try to get with version control but I could not even use Subversion. What a nightmare. All my code kept disappearing, I lost things, stuff I thought had vanished so I did it again then the original came back. Also you have to learn entirely new concepts what the hell does checking out mean. I am sure nothing wrong with the software but when you need to get some code finished who has time to climb some other learning curve.
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When you send a text message you have no guarantee of delivery time. In many cases it will reach the recipient in just a few seconds but you do not know that for sure. It could get there immediately, after an hour, after two days, who knows. I have had messages take longer than one week to arrive.
So the sender cannot know if the message will get delivered at the same time that the recipient is driving.
Llama does not necessarily work for solving this kind of problem. No disrespect intended to the app itself but success depends entirely on the quality of signal that it happens to be receiving at any one time from several local base stations. Maybe the local cellular topology will work for you, maybe not. I tried and failed to have it detect the "I just left the office" and the "I'm at home now" conditions.
For the last 60 years or so the main medical system in this country has been government-operated and paid for via taxation. It has its faults but people generally agree it is a good idea and nobody from any political group wants to see it gone. Minor fees exist for some things but in general all medical care is free at the point of use. If it costs 200K to cure your rare cancer then you still get the treatment without charge.
The average UK person does not know that much about America. I could stop someone in the street at random and would be a good chance they could not name your two main political parties for example, or know which one Obama belongs to. People do know that there was historically no public medical system and think it's very creepy that when Americans get sick and don't have money they just get left in the street to die. Nobody understands why there is so much opposition to having a proper health service now that Obama has passed this law.
No real point to this post except a FYI how it looks from outside USA.
I am not keen on the light from people's screens but I can tolerate that so long as doesn't get too ridiculous. What I really hate though is people yakking all the time, whether into their phones or to the guy in the next seat. How come the movie theatre is not able to broadcast the sound channel somehow so you can take along your favourite wireless headphones? You can get a really nice bluetooth stereo headset for not much money.
The Casio F-91W goes beyond mere timekeeping and is virtually guaranteed to enhance your lifestyle in ways you never expected.
http://gizmodo.com/5795554/people-wearing-this-casio-watch-might-be-terrorists
They already have phase 1 of this in place, when you use 3G/mobile data. There is an automatic block on adult sites but this doesn't necessarily mean porn - half the internet is filtered out and it gets very annoying very quickly. Sites with no obvious "adult" nature are inaccessible until you agree to opt-in by allowing the cellphone company to bill a token sum to your credit card to prove you are over 18. Then all your problems go away.
And that is what they really want i.e. to be able to identify the user. Without that I would be just another anonymous prepaid. I'm sure the same will be along eventually for public wi-fi.
It's about fire safety. If the plane crashes and I'm wearing this season's fashionable new look "shirt soaked in spilled jet fuel" then I really really do hope you damn well turned off your electrical gadgets.
What I see almost every day are DJs with headphones plugged into their laptop and it sounds fine to them. The same track out there on the dancefloor sounds like a horrific wall of distortion. As I understand it lossy compression depends on a "psychoacoustic" trick - maybe this doesn't work if you can hear both stereo channels with both ears. Or something. All I know it sounds truly dreadful and I am no audiophile.
Tobacco is a green leafy vegetable so that is definitely a healthy plan.
I never knew why they discontinued those. Maybe there were really no backdoors and someone thought they were just too useful for personal crypto.
Most people are not interested in most jobs. If mo' robotz mean those people could just stop doing the job completely (but still get paid) then I believe they would be happy to do that. Of course if the people don't get somehow paid then they will be spending zero thus failing to consume the products manufactured by the robots and thereby wrecking the economy.
Some people will still want to perform some jobs because they are not in it purely for the money and love doing whatever it is.
Suppose you don't like to eat dog shit but everyone else does. You really can't understand their crazy (to you) preferences but in a spirit of tolerance you let them eat their dog shit but you certainly don't want any yourself. Now tell me you are OK with your food being cooked on the dog shit grill and being smeared with bits of dog shit?
It's a shame none of these disk encryption systems can use hardware (USB token for example) as part of the crypto. Then pulling out the token would remove the key, at least if the software behaved itself correctly with no caching. Truecrypt does go halfway in the sense that the hash of a file stored in hardware can form part of the key but it would be nice to see it done properly.
My first language is UK English and I too faced the same "which next language to learn?" choice. After a lot of thought I chose Russian. China is such a massive trading partner and I can understand the arguments for selecting a Chinese language but the truth is that learning a language takes time and you have to predict what will be useful in the future rather than what would be useful right now. I've been amazed at the high quality of our outsourced Java development from Russia and and I'm betting that it can't be long before they get tired of China/India taking everything and themselves emerge as a prime supplier of both outsourcing and physical resources. Also Luuseens is right there is a lot of useful technical stuff posted in Russian and it's helpful to read it directly rather than auto-translate.
I've been learning Russian for four years mostly by self-study of free learning material found on the internet. I am nowhere near fluent for a workplace but I'll get there. Yes Russian is "hard" from the point of view of being unlike English but on the plus side its internal structure is so consistently logical that it almost feels like just learning another computer language. My friend at the local office of a major software company does speak four languages fluently (including Russian and Mandarin) and it's beyond doubt this has been a major boost to her career so why not also for the rest of us.
I can't help feeling that "topological conductor" would be a better name for a material that behaves as an insulator in its interior but whose surface can conduct.
There is something wrong with this argument but my mind won't tell me what it is. Why do the publishers think people like you should read the full article if you are perfectly happy to read only an excerpt? In fact why don't the publishers save time by only publishing the excerpt (since people don't bother with the full article.) Of course Google would not able to show you this excerpt so instead would have to display a link to "mystery news".
The story has the words in the wrong order.
Having last erupted about 1,300 years ago... That, however, is about to change.
Fixed it for you.