The closest language to English is French. Even though it is not a Germanic language, most of the words (and spelling horrors) in English come from French, and English grammar is fairly easy to pick up anyway. This means that language proximity is fairly irrelevant when there is no application in study of the language.
One of the more incomprehensible English texts I've seen believed this. They appeared to have translated their French sentences word-for-word into English (*). The result was gibberish...
David Gay
*: I assumed they had done this because their text did make sense when translated word-for-word into French...
Or, to summarise your post, retention policies are necessary because of crappy email servers and clients. Why on earth should a modern computer slow down to a crawl handling a few 1000/10000 items?
Well everything I hear says that (in CS at least) DARPA drastically cut their academic research funding. Is it then any surprise that research-minded people ignore DARPA?
As a side effect, it makes it possible for the "New York Photo Shop Scam" to exist where they advertise an item at an incredibly low price (grey market, of course) but then you are required to purchase something else to get the price. You find this all the time doing price searches for photo and electronics gear. Good thing? I don't think so, but that is what Internet price searches thrive on - low prices.
You obviously didn't try to buy photo stuff before the 90s. The "New York Photo Shop Scam" significantly predates the web - it thrived on very-small-font greyscale-ads in photo magazines. Or try to buy a camera in various over-touristy parts of the world known for their "cheap" camera prices (e.g., Hong Kong).
Will the train wait for you if you are running two minutes late? Or will it leave exactly on time? What if you are going to visit your sick mother in the hospital? Will the conductor let you on if you run up at the last minute, after the doors have closed, tears in your eyes?
I'll note that in Switzerland the buses run on time, and are generally nice to people running up to them. In the Bay Area, the buses run late and ignore people banging on the door to get in. Make of this what you will;-)
Strange. I graduated from one of those "big universities", and I think your comment shows some fairly severe anti-Microsoft bias. Microsoft Research *is* well respected in the research community, and people don't go there just to improve their resume. A number of people don't want to go there because they don't like Microsoft, but if they are any good as researchers, they don't try to pretend that MSR does bad work.
Are America's academic programs more challenging? It's difficult to achieve high marks in many American schools, isn't it? Or haven't you been a student here before?
Today's most hilarious post - we have a winner! AFAICT, the US is the land of straight A's and grade inflation (my experience is for college, but I somehow doubt high school is harder). In many other places, perfect grades at high school or college is basically unheard of (as in, maybe one person every 10 years), and many people get non-passing grades.
Thanks to all those who are "offended" by ignorant, belligerent, and on rare occasions insightful opinions, we have the PC phrase "hate speech."
I suspect you don't know much about on the origins of hate speech legislation in Europe (hint: your description has no historical accuracy). Or, if you're going to attack something, understand where it comes from first.
"Dark Ages" was always an anglo-centric concept. The French think about Charlemagne (look him up if you don't know him, i.e., if your European history was anglo-centric) when they think about that time period.
Society wouldn't "implode". You're implying a lower birthrate means a society disappears, which is mathematically silly. A lower birthrate means the population shrinks for a few generations, then stablizes with lower numbers, which is a GOOD THING.
You seem mathematically confused. If the birthrate stays below the replacement level (2.1 children/women I believe), then the population will continue shrinking. Whether this is good or bad is a different question...
However, results for Turing machines are not always interesting because physical computing machines are not Turing machines. Notably, physical computing machines lack unbounded memory. A better model for a computer is a linear bounded automaton. All LBAs can be converted into machines that always halt by running them in a virtual machine and looking for cycles in their states.
We have a winner for the ridiculous statement of the day. The statement is true, but so totally irrelevant as to be of no interest whatsoever:
your halting detector will indeed halt, but not in the lifetime of this universe for most programs (those 2^(2^40) states are going to be a problem to deal with)
something with an infinite loop leading to resource exhaustion will be decreed as halting
> But on a serious (sorta) note, how long does milk typically last > over on your side of the pond, compared to here?
Well, it seems to last about a month in the US. In Switzerland, they sell two grades of milk: - pasteurised, lasts about 3 days after being opened - ultra-pasteurised, lasts (maybe?) a week after being opened (but is happy to live for a couple of weeks outside the fridge before being opened)
One might theorise that the US milk is ultra-ultra-ultra pasteurised;-) Or else, the cows were so well preserved that their milk lasts longer;-)
No, no, you're quite wrong. It doesn't cost a 1/4 or a 1/10th less to get a degree, it costs 1/30th to infinitely less. And that was Switzerland, mind you (*).
David Gay *: You can always tell that something is overpriced if it's cheaper in Switzerland;-)
Just a random thought, but I wonder how much that has to do with communism. In the eastern european countries at least, the gender gaps were much smaller just because the communists did make things a lot more equal (everyone suffers equally, blah blah blah). The majority of the doctors I went to as a kid in Poland were women. Lots and lots of women scientists.
Yes, and I'm reliably informed that in Bulgaria at least, they had to use affirmative action to ensure there wasn't a gender gap in universities. They made the exams harder for the women, my wife still complains about it;-)
The strange thing about this article is that most people consider US science/math/engineering undergrad classes too easy (this is based on first hand observation).
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And he wouldn't complain as much about x86 if he had actually programmed the 8086 ;-)
One of the more incomprehensible English texts I've seen believed this. They appeared to have translated their French sentences word-for-word into English (*). The result was gibberish...
David Gay
*: I assumed they had done this because their text did make sense when translated word-for-word into French...
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" - not all conferences work as you describe.
Or, to summarise your post, retention policies are necessary because of crappy email servers and clients. Why on earth should a modern computer slow down to a crawl handling a few 1000/10000 items?
Well everything I hear says that (in CS at least) DARPA drastically cut their academic research funding. Is it then any surprise that research-minded people ignore DARPA?
Geneva has all the international organisations (you can't throw a rock without hitting one), not the EU ones ;-)
You obviously didn't try to buy photo stuff before the 90s. The "New York Photo Shop Scam" significantly predates the web - it thrived on very-small-font greyscale-ads in photo magazines. Or try to buy a camera in various over-touristy parts of the world known for their "cheap" camera prices (e.g., Hong Kong).
David Gay
Wow. I knew some people were young and stupid, but this subthread definitely shows them up well!
David Gay
I'll note that in Switzerland the buses run on time, and are generally nice to people running up to them. In the Bay Area, the buses run late and ignore people banging on the door to get in. Make of this what you will ;-)
David Gay
You used Windows 1?
David Gay
mume.pvv.org, port 5100 is still up, after 15 years... David Gay, who spent to much time hacking mume's code...
David Gay
Strange. I graduated from one of those "big universities", and I think your comment shows some fairly severe anti-Microsoft bias. Microsoft Research *is* well respected in the research community, and people don't go there just to improve their resume. A number of people don't want to go there because they don't like Microsoft, but if they are any good as researchers, they don't try to pretend that MSR does bad work.
David Gay
Today's most hilarious post - we have a winner! AFAICT, the US is the land of straight A's and grade inflation (my experience is for college, but I somehow doubt high school is harder). In many other places, perfect grades at high school or college is basically unheard of (as in, maybe one person every 10 years), and many people get non-passing grades.
David Gay
I think you'll find that Hawaii wasn't a US state in 1941.
I suspect you don't know much about on the origins of hate speech legislation in Europe (hint: your description has no historical accuracy). Or, if you're going to attack something, understand where it comes from first.
David Gay
You don't believe in backups, I see (and no, an extra hard disk connected to your computer only deals with some problems).
David Gay
You seem mathematically confused. If the birthrate stays below the replacement level (2.1 children/women I believe), then the population will continue shrinking. Whether this is good or bad is a different question...
David Gay
We have a winner for the ridiculous statement of the day. The statement is true, but so totally irrelevant as to be of no interest whatsoever:
David Gay
> But on a serious (sorta) note, how long does milk typically last
;-) Or else, the cows were so well preserved that their milk lasts longer ;-)
> over on your side of the pond, compared to here?
Well, it seems to last about a month in the US. In Switzerland, they sell two grades of milk:
- pasteurised, lasts about 3 days after being opened
- ultra-pasteurised, lasts (maybe?) a week after being opened (but is happy to live for a couple of weeks outside the fridge before being opened)
One might theorise that the US milk is ultra-ultra-ultra pasteurised
David Gay
No, no, you're quite wrong. It doesn't cost a 1/4 or a 1/10th less to get a degree, it costs 1/30th to infinitely less. And that was Switzerland, mind you (*).
;-)
David Gay
*: You can always tell that something is overpriced if it's cheaper in Switzerland
Yes, and I'm reliably informed that in Bulgaria at least, they had to use affirmative action to ensure there wasn't a gender gap in universities. They made the exams harder for the women, my wife still complains about it ;-)
Remaps caps lock as control if you're a heavy emacs user. Your hands will thank you.
David Gay
The strange thing about this article is that most people consider US science/math/engineering undergrad classes too easy (this is based on first hand observation).