My point is, though, that if you look at the genitive singular and ablative singular in Lucretius, they are 2nd declension forms. So either it's a defective second declension noun, or it's a normal second declension noun with a normal plural that isn't preserved.
There may not be an attestation of viri as the plural of virus, but according to Lewis and Short, virus is a second declension noun, so if there were a plural, it'd be viri. In Latin. In English of course it's viruses. And note that it's listed in the Lewis and Short on Perseus.
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Actually, no, viri is an acceptable plural of virus. The word virus is used in Vergil's Georgics; if you look it up in Lewis and Short (and I assume in the Oxford Latin Dictionary, which I don't have immediate access to), the plural in Latin is indeed viri. Yes, it's the same word as the plural of the word for man, vir.
Chinese characters are not pictograms, they're logograms. They ultimately derive from pictograms. On the problems with this discussion in general, see Wardy's *Aristotle in China*.
Did he say he didn't like it, or just that it was an anticlimax and that anticlimaxes don't work the same way in movies as they do in books (though I wish some movies had a least a couple of minutes of anticlimax - the real payoff isn't the resolution of the crisis, it's the consequences of that resolution). [Note: I'm using anticlimax in its technical sense, of the falling action which follows the climax and portrays the consequences of the plot's resolution; not in the common sense of bathos.]
It may just be an artifact of changes in your circles of acquaintance as you get older. When I was teaching, I noticed a steady decline in the students' language skills. But that was more than 5 years ago...
We're running SA 2.6. 95% of our users are getting exactly as advertised: 95% spam getting blocked, everything obvious getting blocked. 5% of our users are getting only 10% effectiveness, obvious things like v1agra getting through, and we're not using SALearn. Everything is configured on the server, and none of the users has any input into what does or doesn't get blocked.
SA has been great, and it would be perfect if I could just figure out why those few users aren't getting the full effect.
BG never "got to Earth." The show was cancelled, then resumed as Galactica 1980 or something, which was set on & above Earth, and 20 years in the putative future, but had only one of the original cast members, Lorne Grene. BG was canceled because it was too expensive to produce; the 1980 version had very cheap effects.
There was some reference to "the author" who was the source for the stories used in (I think they mentioned) Minority Report and Total Recall; at any rate, they did mention a couple of Dick-based movies.
Another interesting thing in the story is that movies are planned of Radio Free Albemuth and Valis. I would assume that ONE movie, a Valis movie, would be made incorporating stuff from RFA, since RFA is so much like Valis that it is usually assumed (I think Dick even said as much) that Valis was in effect a rewrite of RFA.
I saw a preview for this as a trailer at Revolutions. It looks interesting, but I'm nervous about Dick stories becoming films. Total Recall was completely unDickian in tone and style; Imposter was closer, but lacked the kind of paranoid tension that would have given the movie meaning.
Three ideal PKD books/stories to make movies of: 1. Electric Ant, 2. The Unteleported Man, 3. the most obvious of all, The Man in the High Tower.
(fact: if you are made to feel you are temporary/replaceable, your working attitude will adapt to correspond).
It will adapt to correspond, but the adaptation will differ depending upon the overall attitude of the worker. Self-motivated workers excel in conditions in which they are rewarded and treated as special; those workers who have no self-motivation do least badly in conditions where they are always afraid for their jobs.
If you take a superior, self-motivated worker who's always felt secure in his job and start giving him quotas to meet or he's out, well, you won't have to worry about firing him when he doesn't meet his quota: he will have packed up and moved to another job by then.
How do I know that the unsecured AP I'm using isn't unsecured on purpose? In addition to the hundreds of advertised free hot spots, there must be thousands of unadvertised ones that were left unsecured precisely so passing users could borrow some bandwidth. [Whether, given the context of this arrest, that's a smart thing to do is a moot point.]
The japanese probe was never intended to touch down so was never decontaminated. The landers were intended to reach the surface, and so were decontaminated appropriately.
Folks, pile some mod points on the anonymous coward parent posting (quoted above). This is exactly the point.
The dino extinction is called the K-T extinction, for Cretaceous/Tertiary (it makes sense in German, I imagine), and the one in question would be the P-T extinction, for Permian/Triassic. So this is the previous huge mass extinction event to the K-T extinction. The Dinosauria branch off from the Reptilia in early Triassic, and all Dinosauria except the Aves die off at the K-T event.
That's a really, really good question. Unfortunately it would take a heapload aesthetics and literary theory to answer it. Short answer: both "yes" (for a machine to recognize that something it is doing will have an emotional effect and so is art would require AI) and no (if it's ok for the machine to churn stuff out and the human viewers to decide that it's art despite there being no emotional content added by the machine author).
Depends upon where you're going to ship them. Shipping a bunch of rock to LEO via interplanetary is a whole bunch cheaper than shipping it up from Earth by shuttle - once you've got space industry bootstrapped.
Depends upon your definition of "eventually." Eventually we may end up living in a Dyson Sphere or Ringworld. At that point, yes. A few billion years before then, I doubt it.
Actually, I think it's a lot simpler than that. (a) Most script kiddies own Windows machines, and so most script kiddies write Windows viruses. If most script kiddies owned Macs, most viruses would be written for Macs; on the other hand, since Mac lacks the gaping security holes that Windows has, there probably wouldn't be enough viruses to support an anti-virus software industry.
Remember that phonology is less significant a part of dialect differentiation than vocabulary and syntax. I think there are some dialectical differences in syntax and vocab between the Latin used for official purposes by the Vatican (and not just the Latin of the Latin Mass) and that used by a modern classicist when composing in Latin (it happens, on rare occasion), but I'm not sure how significant they are, as I am not an expert on dialect differentiation in contemporary neo-Latin.
That's right, the word "dead" is usually used of languages with no known contemporary native speakers. But the original posting I responded to asked why anyone would study "dead" languages, so I have used another definition of "dead" that is also widely used.
The point I was making before was that the necessity to study Latin and (or ancient dialects of Greek, or Prakrit, or Akkadian, or Mayan) continues as long as there are documents written in those languages.
Neo-Latin is usually used for Latin after AD 1200, though it is sometimes limited to truly modern Latin. Latin is on rare occasion used for composition of prefaces to scholarly editions of Latin and Greek texts. It is used by Nuntii Latini to broadcast the news. It is used by the Vatican as a language of publication for encyclicals etc., and also I believe still used in some debates as a language of discourse. There are tiny differences between the Latin used in various venues, and there are distinct differences in pronunciation, but since most modern Latin authors are basing their style upon a classical exemplar (not sure what the Vatican does, as they have a living tradition of using Latin for composition that goes back nearly 2000 years), the differences are microscopic.
See the Latinteach list for details:
http://www.latinteach.com/converse.html
Any language with documents written in it isn't truly dead. And no, translation is never good enough, because the nature of human languages is such that a 1:1 correspondence between (even two closely related dialects) is impossible.
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My point is, though, that if you look at the genitive singular and ablative singular in Lucretius, they are 2nd declension forms. So either it's a defective second declension noun, or it's a normal second declension noun with a normal plural that isn't preserved.
There may not be an attestation of viri as the plural of virus, but according to Lewis and Short, virus is a second declension noun, so if there were a plural, it'd be viri. In Latin. In English of course it's viruses. And note that it's listed in the Lewis and Short on Perseus.
Actually, no, viri is an acceptable plural of virus. The word virus is used in Vergil's Georgics; if you look it up in Lewis and Short (and I assume in the Oxford Latin Dictionary, which I don't have immediate access to), the plural in Latin is indeed viri. Yes, it's the same word as the plural of the word for man, vir.
Chinese characters are not pictograms, they're logograms. They ultimately derive from pictograms. On the problems with this discussion in general, see Wardy's *Aristotle in China*.
Did he say he didn't like it, or just that it was an anticlimax and that anticlimaxes don't work the same way in movies as they do in books (though I wish some movies had a least a couple of minutes of anticlimax - the real payoff isn't the resolution of the crisis, it's the consequences of that resolution). [Note: I'm using anticlimax in its technical sense, of the falling action which follows the climax and portrays the consequences of the plot's resolution; not in the common sense of bathos.]
It may just be an artifact of changes in your circles of acquaintance as you get older. When I was teaching, I noticed a steady decline in the students' language skills. But that was more than 5 years ago ...
and spell OS X , not OS/X.
We're running SA 2.6. 95% of our users are getting exactly as advertised: 95% spam getting blocked, everything obvious getting blocked. 5% of our users are getting only 10% effectiveness, obvious things like v1agra getting through, and we're not using SALearn. Everything is configured on the server, and none of the users has any input into what does or doesn't get blocked.
SA has been great, and it would be perfect if I could just figure out why those few users aren't getting the full effect.
The working title of Star Trek was "Wagon Train to the Stars." Whedon was just more open about it.
BG never "got to Earth." The show was cancelled, then resumed as Galactica 1980 or something, which was set on & above Earth, and 20 years in the putative future, but had only one of the original cast members, Lorne Grene. BG was canceled because it was too expensive to produce; the 1980 version had very cheap effects.
There already is such an identifier. It's called a Universal Resource Identifier, or URI. See Berners-Lee essay Cool URIs Don't Change.
There was some reference to "the author" who was the source for the stories used in (I think they mentioned) Minority Report and Total Recall; at any rate, they did mention a couple of Dick-based movies.
Another interesting thing in the story is that movies are planned of Radio Free Albemuth and Valis. I would assume that ONE movie, a Valis movie, would be made incorporating stuff from RFA, since RFA is so much like Valis that it is usually assumed (I think Dick even said as much) that Valis was in effect a rewrite of RFA.
I saw a preview for this as a trailer at Revolutions. It looks interesting, but I'm nervous about Dick stories becoming films. Total Recall was completely unDickian in tone and style; Imposter was closer, but lacked the kind of paranoid tension that would have given the movie meaning.
Three ideal PKD books/stories to make movies of: 1. Electric Ant, 2. The Unteleported Man, 3. the most obvious of all, The Man in the High Tower.
(fact: if you are made to feel you are temporary/replaceable, your working attitude will adapt to correspond).
It will adapt to correspond, but the adaptation will differ depending upon the overall attitude of the worker. Self-motivated workers excel in conditions in which they are rewarded and treated as special; those workers who have no self-motivation do least badly in conditions where they are always afraid for their jobs.
If you take a superior, self-motivated worker who's always felt secure in his job and start giving him quotas to meet or he's out, well, you won't have to worry about firing him when he doesn't meet his quota: he will have packed up and moved to another job by then.
How do I know that the unsecured AP I'm using isn't unsecured on purpose? In addition to the hundreds of advertised free hot spots, there must be thousands of unadvertised ones that were left unsecured precisely so passing users could borrow some bandwidth. [Whether, given the context of this arrest, that's a smart thing to do is a moot point.]
The japanese probe was never intended to touch down so was never decontaminated. The landers were intended to reach the surface, and so were decontaminated appropriately.
Folks, pile some mod points on the anonymous coward parent posting (quoted above). This is exactly the point.
The dino extinction is called the K-T extinction, for Cretaceous/Tertiary (it makes sense in German, I imagine), and the one in question would be the P-T extinction, for Permian/Triassic. So this is the previous huge mass extinction event to the K-T extinction. The Dinosauria branch off from the Reptilia in early Triassic, and all Dinosauria except the Aves die off at the K-T event.
The P-T was bigger than the K-T.
Mine has a very, very nice scratch all along the right side. Does this mean if I replace the battery I'll get one without the scratch?
That's a really, really good question. Unfortunately it would take a heapload aesthetics and literary theory to answer it. Short answer: both "yes" (for a machine to recognize that something it is doing will have an emotional effect and so is art would require AI) and no (if it's ok for the machine to churn stuff out and the human viewers to decide that it's art despite there being no emotional content added by the machine author).
Depends upon where you're going to ship them. Shipping a bunch of rock to LEO via interplanetary is a whole bunch cheaper than shipping it up from Earth by shuttle - once you've got space industry bootstrapped.
Depends upon your definition of "eventually." Eventually we may end up living in a Dyson Sphere or Ringworld. At that point, yes. A few billion years before then, I doubt it.
Actually, I think it's a lot simpler than that. (a) Most script kiddies own Windows machines, and so most script kiddies write Windows viruses. If most script kiddies owned Macs, most viruses would be written for Macs; on the other hand, since Mac lacks the gaping security holes that Windows has, there probably wouldn't be enough viruses to support an anti-virus software industry.
Remember that phonology is less significant a part of dialect differentiation than vocabulary and syntax. I think there are some dialectical differences in syntax and vocab between the Latin used for official purposes by the Vatican (and not just the Latin of the Latin Mass) and that used by a modern classicist when composing in Latin (it happens, on rare occasion), but I'm not sure how significant they are, as I am not an expert on dialect differentiation in contemporary neo-Latin.
That's right, the word "dead" is usually used of languages with no known contemporary native speakers. But the original posting I responded to asked why anyone would study "dead" languages, so I have used another definition of "dead" that is also widely used.
The point I was making before was that the necessity to study Latin and (or ancient dialects of Greek, or Prakrit, or Akkadian, or Mayan) continues as long as there are documents written in those languages.
Neo-Latin is usually used for Latin after AD 1200, though it is sometimes limited to truly modern Latin. Latin is on rare occasion used for composition of prefaces to scholarly editions of Latin and Greek texts. It is used by Nuntii Latini to broadcast the news. It is used by the Vatican as a language of publication for encyclicals etc., and also I believe still used in some debates as a language of discourse. There are tiny differences between the Latin used in various venues, and there are distinct differences in pronunciation, but since most modern Latin authors are basing their style upon a classical exemplar (not sure what the Vatican does, as they have a living tradition of using Latin for composition that goes back nearly 2000 years), the differences are microscopic.
See the Latinteach list for details: http://www.latinteach.com/converse.html
Any language with documents written in it isn't truly dead. And no, translation is never good enough, because the nature of human languages is such that a 1:1 correspondence between (even two closely related dialects) is impossible.