English was for commoners. Latin for priests. French for royalty.
Probably the 16th century when Shakespeare started writing for the unwashed masses, as English was the commoner's language.
Only until the thirteenth century, actually. Once King John lost Normandy in 1204, and once this was accepted as a permanent situation, there began a conscious effort at "Englishness" in order to differentiate themselves from the French enemy, and the nobility began to use English. Since that time, (say, 1300), English has been the common language of the English people of all classes, although many French words had been adopted. By Shakespeare's time, (b. 1564), English was spoken by all Englishmen as their first language, and had been for over two centuries. Latin was already a dead language by 1204, but learned as a second language by educated people, (not just the clergy).
Horseshit. This isn't about behaviour or politeness. This is about language. Specifically, English; which is an evolving language and has been since it separated from the Latin language. Go read the Declaration of Independence. There are missspellings there, if what you consider correct is what we have today -only-. The further on back you read, the harder it gets, 'cause the language evolved since then, and it will continue to evolve from now. And horseshit articles on the NYT isnt going to change that. The main point of a language is getting your thoughts across with the minimal amount of effort necessary for the listener to comprehend your ideas, meaning, and intent. If we can do so more efficiently, then awesome. If the professors didn't get what the students meant, ask them to rephrase themselves.
Slang and informal writing are different issues than evolving English, (which, incidentally, is not a branch of Latin). This is about teaching college students how to write, and behave, like adults - a skill they'll need in life. The Declaration of Independence was written at a time before standardized spelling really existed, and yes, the language was different. Even though slang existed in the eighteenth century, the Declaration doesn't contain any, because the colonists wanted to be taken seriously. It's written in the formal language of its day. That's the lesson students need to learn.
I notice you don't write like a child, so I wonder why you're advocating for it?
I'm a truck driver, so my life is "long trips to unfamiliar locations". Street View is only occasionally useful to me, but Satellite View is a huge help because I can look at the place I'm going, confirm it's actually the company I want, (for some reason, addresses don't match up well out in the countryside), and see where the docks are, and which private, (usually dirt), road gets me there. The last thing you want to do in a seventy-some-foot-long truck is turn into a dead end. It's also extremely valuable in trying to find decent food, as you can see whether there's room for a truck to park nearby. The truck stops just suck for food, so this is huge for me. Traffic view is also a great help, and is always way more accurate than the one my GPS has. The only drawback is that I can't always use Google's routing because it doesn't do truck routing, (low clearance, weight restrictions, and other things you have to avoid).
This is why I've long wished Google would make an actual GPS unit for truckers. Out in the country, you're often getting 1x phone service, if any signal at all, but you can always get a satellite signal for a GPS. But, if not that, truck routing in their app would be nice. Sure, there are apps that do hazmat, oversize, and general truck routing, but really, nothing beats Google for accuracy, nor combines all the useful features I just mentioned.
Much as we love to see the veiw from Reverse World, I think it's a bit much to expect to be modded up. It's no longer Funny, and it's certainly never been Insightful. What puzzles me is, why you people are even on this site, (assuming right-wing Anonymous Coward is more than one person). In other words, why would a person whose worldview is anti-science, anti-evidence, and anti-progress be hanging out on a science news site? Just to troll? That would be pretty pathetic. You spew racial epithets like a child who's just learned a new word that offends grown-ups. What do you get out of that, I wonder. I do hope you're not an adult.
Oh, it's legal, alright. The Trumps just know when to get out of a Ponzi scheme, and leave others holding the bag. His investors always lose, but he always gets out with money. That's his genius. When the Donald tries his hand at an actual business, he fails. But he was brought up in the real estate game, so that's the one thing he knows, aside from selling his name. Now he passing it onto the next generation.
I'm always a little amazed at the people who find the Clinton's use of their influence, to get money for a charity that does actual charity, more appalling than Trump's phony charity, which only benefits Trump. Is it really so awful to strong-arm rich people into giving money to do good work? Or are you simply blind to, or ignorant of, the illegal shenanigans of the Trump Foundation?
You do understand there's a difference between the right to confront your accuser in court when you've been brought up on charges, and harassing and threatening someone who's complained to your ISP, right?
An accusation of hate speech, which one might define as incitement toward bias-motivated crime, is a fairly strong indicator of intending to have the accused "brought up on charges."
If, and when, that happens, they'll have the right to confront their accuser in court. But it's still not going to be the people complaining to the ISP.
Minor quibble - or maybe not minor - but how do you know that the universe is finite? It would be a strange coincidence if the entirety of the universe happened to be the part that we can observe...
An infinite universe would't be expanding. It couldn't get any bigger.
I thought due process in Cloudflare's home country included the right for someone accused of a crime to confront his accuser (U.S. Const., Amendment VI).
You do understand there's a difference between the right to confront your accuser in court when you've been brought up on charges, and harassing and threatening someone who's complained to your ISP, right?
1) AlphaGo exploded on the scene by beating world class Go players much faster and much earlier than expected. Exponentially is a loaded word. e^0.0000001 is an exponential growth rate. So let's not quibble about how exponential the growth rate is.
Particularly as we can't really measure intelligence. But "exponential" has a meaning, and it means a steady rate of doubling.
2) AlphaGo is a general purpose learning tool. Just listen to the lectures and articles penned by the DeepMind team.
No, it's a narrow AI. In the end, it's simply doing math. It's not "thinking" in any sense of the term. It's just able to hold many more probabilities in its memory than a human, and play them out much faster.
3) Alphago has displayed human-like intelligence, as claimed by the Go professionals it has played. They have said that AlphaGo plays like a human player.
That is what you call anthropomorphizing. The human players are simply projecting onto the machine.
4) If you take the fourth assumption literally, AI's intelligence is going to expand infinitely. Talking about infinity in human terms is unreasonable. Yes, AI's intelligence will expand.
"Infinite" simply means there's no limit. We don't know whether or not there's a limit to intelligence, but since the universe is finite, there would seem to be a limit to the things one could know. Infinite intelligence is our notion of God. What are the odds that infinite intelligence is also mythological?
You can sue anyone for anything at any time. Whether it has merit is a whole other story. This is just subway trying to save face by accusation.
They're trying to save face? I thought they were going for the Streisand Effect. Not that I even eat at Subway, except in the most dire emergencies, but I'd never heard this story before.
Not a direct replacement for an Apple product? You're serious? Only an Apple fanatic could think something like that, given that there are indeed direct replacements for every Apple product.
Name another product that can run OS X. The only other choices are Windows, which, Windows, or Linux, which isn't nearly as user-friendly. I have friends who use both of those systems - no thank you! Only OS X gives you a *nix system that is not only very stable and configurable, but incredibly easy to use. Android is a decent imitation of iOS, looks a lot like it, but the iPhone still kills it. I mean, why do you think Apple has fanatical users?
Hate on Apple all you want. I hate them, too. Always have. But no one can touch their products, even as they try to imitate them. That's just a fact. Whether they'll be able to keep this up with Jobs gone remains to be seen, but I am not about to start using Windows.
Who cares? It was a dick move regardless of what the EULA says.
My first thought was, "These two deserve each other". Tell ya what though, it's not often a corporation shows it's hand so fast. Let this be a lesson in the many possibilities of the IoT. Not that corporations believing they own the devices you've paid for is all that new, but with this type of stuff, they can really reach out and touch you.
Actually, late at night, Walmart's are the best place to see Aliens, not illegal immigrants, actual extraterrestrials. http://www.peopleofwalmart.com...
I shop there because because there's room to park my semi-truck. You could probably land a flying saucer there, too, at night.
Whoever wrote the summary used the wrong example. The use of "they" or "their" isn't controversial in plural. For those who didn't RTFA, the thing that's new and controversial is it's use as a singular:
“Carly cleared their voice and spoke.” In that instance, Carly does not identify as male or female, so neither “his” nor “her” is appropriate there."
I'm an old-school liberal, and about as liberal as you can get, but I don't understand what it means to identify a neither male nor female. I do know I hate having to constantly explain myself, and even hate correcting people's constant mispronunciation of my last name. If it were me, I'd just pick one or the other, and be done with it. I mean, there aren't a lot of gender-neutral choices for names so if you're going with say, "Carly", might as well let people say "she". Then again, I suppose some people don't mind spending their time correcting people.
I doubt people who sit and spout racist shit into a camera are doing it for profit.
A lot aren't, but some want to spout racist shit full-time, (and likely have a hard time holding down a job anyway), and there are many others who are less ideological than greedy, and have discovered how remunerative clickbait can be, and what an easy target the Right is. Advertising dollars make this possible. That's how we ended up with all this fake news.
I get why many advertisers wouldn't want to be associated with this dreck but, and you can ask Anonymous Coward, racist assholes buy stuff, too. Luckily, it's still a small market.
Actually, protest and mass demonstration are the only way change is accomplished in the US. At least, change that benefits the people. Voting, up until very very recently, has almost always been meaningless, since the two choices were provided to us by the two parties.
But never mind all that. What I want to know is, when will this vehicle be available for purchase in GTA?
The US budget isn't like your household budget. First of all, the federal debt is in dollars and not, say, euros. Do you know where dollars come from? The Federal government is the only source of dollars in the world. The dollar is a fiat currency. The Fed can, and does, create billions of dollars with the stroke of a keyboard. So, imagine that, whenever you were short of money, you could put some in your checking account by typing a number in your computer. Then, your budget would be like the Federal budget.
The long and short of it is, the Federal debt isn't really a big deal. The Right likes to harp on it because it's another way to attack "Big Government", one of their bogeymen. Why? Because it's the Federal government which creates the consumer protections big business hates, a.k.a., regulations. Does the Right really not understand how the economy works? Do they really think giving money to rich people will somehow spur growth, even though we've known for decades that it's quite the opposite? Do they really not understand how a fiat currency works? Are they unable to see that decades of right-wing economics have made the rich richer, and the poor poorer? Or do they just not care as long as they get their way? Clearly the working people voting them in don't get it.
It's about time we all got healthcare for life. We no longer pay taxes to fill some king or emperor's coffers. We pay taxes for our common good, as a nation and a people. This notion in America that we're all just individuals who happen to live within some artificial borders has got to go. This notion that helping poor people somehow takes something away from others has got to go. When we raise up the poorest citizens, it directly benefits everyone else. Yet we continue to throw money at rich people, even as we see the middle- and working-class continue its slide down. It's madness, when this money could be paying for education and healthcare.
What?! He would work his full work day but if he was needed during night or weekend he would work from home and they fired him? For taking care of his dying wife?!
Yeah, wow. I can't believe they'd treat a middle-class tech worker like they do regular working-class people. This can't be the normal thing, right? It's like those stories one hears about middle-class white people having run-ins with the cops where their rights aren't respected. It's as if class no longer matters in the USA.
I think Twitter needs to seriously consider removing his account.
Not that it's going to happen, but you're not the first person I've heard say this, and I could not disagree more. We really need to know what this dolt is thinking, and we should all be grateful this guy is such a self-centered idiot that he sees nothing wrong with tweeting out his every thought. The more he does it, the more people can see what kind of person he is. I wish Steve Bannon would do the same. Although, I keep wondering about these people who still seem unable to see exactly what kind of person Trump is.
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English was for commoners. Latin for priests. French for royalty.
Probably the 16th century when Shakespeare started writing for the unwashed masses, as English was the commoner's language.
Only until the thirteenth century, actually. Once King John lost Normandy in 1204, and once this was accepted as a permanent situation, there began a conscious effort at "Englishness" in order to differentiate themselves from the French enemy, and the nobility began to use English. Since that time, (say, 1300), English has been the common language of the English people of all classes, although many French words had been adopted. By Shakespeare's time, (b. 1564), English was spoken by all Englishmen as their first language, and had been for over two centuries. Latin was already a dead language by 1204, but learned as a second language by educated people, (not just the clergy).
Horseshit. This isn't about behaviour or politeness. This is about language. Specifically, English; which is an evolving language and has been since it separated from the Latin language. Go read the Declaration of Independence. There are missspellings there, if what you consider correct is what we have today -only-. The further on back you read, the harder it gets, 'cause the language evolved since then, and it will continue to evolve from now. And horseshit articles on the NYT isnt going to change that. The main point of a language is getting your thoughts across with the minimal amount of effort necessary for the listener to comprehend your ideas, meaning, and intent. If we can do so more efficiently, then awesome. If the professors didn't get what the students meant, ask them to rephrase themselves.
Slang and informal writing are different issues than evolving English, (which, incidentally, is not a branch of Latin). This is about teaching college students how to write, and behave, like adults - a skill they'll need in life. The Declaration of Independence was written at a time before standardized spelling really existed, and yes, the language was different. Even though slang existed in the eighteenth century, the Declaration doesn't contain any, because the colonists wanted to be taken seriously. It's written in the formal language of its day. That's the lesson students need to learn.
I notice you don't write like a child, so I wonder why you're advocating for it?
As a truck driver, I find that my 1990s emissions levels nicely complement my 1970s wages.
I'm a truck driver, so my life is "long trips to unfamiliar locations". Street View is only occasionally useful to me, but Satellite View is a huge help because I can look at the place I'm going, confirm it's actually the company I want, (for some reason, addresses don't match up well out in the countryside), and see where the docks are, and which private, (usually dirt), road gets me there. The last thing you want to do in a seventy-some-foot-long truck is turn into a dead end. It's also extremely valuable in trying to find decent food, as you can see whether there's room for a truck to park nearby. The truck stops just suck for food, so this is huge for me. Traffic view is also a great help, and is always way more accurate than the one my GPS has. The only drawback is that I can't always use Google's routing because it doesn't do truck routing, (low clearance, weight restrictions, and other things you have to avoid).
This is why I've long wished Google would make an actual GPS unit for truckers. Out in the country, you're often getting 1x phone service, if any signal at all, but you can always get a satellite signal for a GPS. But, if not that, truck routing in their app would be nice. Sure, there are apps that do hazmat, oversize, and general truck routing, but really, nothing beats Google for accuracy, nor combines all the useful features I just mentioned.
Much as we love to see the veiw from Reverse World, I think it's a bit much to expect to be modded up. It's no longer Funny, and it's certainly never been Insightful. What puzzles me is, why you people are even on this site, (assuming right-wing Anonymous Coward is more than one person). In other words, why would a person whose worldview is anti-science, anti-evidence, and anti-progress be hanging out on a science news site? Just to troll? That would be pretty pathetic. You spew racial epithets like a child who's just learned a new word that offends grown-ups. What do you get out of that, I wonder. I do hope you're not an adult.
Oh, it's legal, alright. The Trumps just know when to get out of a Ponzi scheme, and leave others holding the bag. His investors always lose, but he always gets out with money. That's his genius. When the Donald tries his hand at an actual business, he fails. But he was brought up in the real estate game, so that's the one thing he knows, aside from selling his name. Now he passing it onto the next generation.
I'm always a little amazed at the people who find the Clinton's use of their influence, to get money for a charity that does actual charity, more appalling than Trump's phony charity, which only benefits Trump. Is it really so awful to strong-arm rich people into giving money to do good work? Or are you simply blind to, or ignorant of, the illegal shenanigans of the Trump Foundation?
You do understand there's a difference between the right to confront your accuser in court when you've been brought up on charges, and harassing and threatening someone who's complained to your ISP, right?
An accusation of hate speech, which one might define as incitement toward bias-motivated crime, is a fairly strong indicator of intending to have the accused "brought up on charges."
If, and when, that happens, they'll have the right to confront their accuser in court. But it's still not going to be the people complaining to the ISP.
Minor quibble - or maybe not minor - but how do you know that the universe is finite? It would be a strange coincidence if the entirety of the universe happened to be the part that we can observe...
An infinite universe would't be expanding. It couldn't get any bigger.
I thought due process in Cloudflare's home country included the right for someone accused of a crime to confront his accuser (U.S. Const., Amendment VI).
You do understand there's a difference between the right to confront your accuser in court when you've been brought up on charges, and harassing and threatening someone who's complained to your ISP, right?
1) AlphaGo exploded on the scene by beating world class Go players much faster and much earlier than expected. Exponentially is a loaded word. e^0.0000001 is an exponential growth rate. So let's not quibble about how exponential the growth rate is.
Particularly as we can't really measure intelligence. But "exponential" has a meaning, and it means a steady rate of doubling.
2) AlphaGo is a general purpose learning tool. Just listen to the lectures and articles penned by the DeepMind team.
No, it's a narrow AI. In the end, it's simply doing math. It's not "thinking" in any sense of the term. It's just able to hold many more probabilities in its memory than a human, and play them out much faster.
3) Alphago has displayed human-like intelligence, as claimed by the Go professionals it has played. They have said that AlphaGo plays like a human player.
That is what you call anthropomorphizing. The human players are simply projecting onto the machine.
4) If you take the fourth assumption literally, AI's intelligence is going to expand infinitely. Talking about infinity in human terms is unreasonable. Yes, AI's intelligence will expand.
"Infinite" simply means there's no limit. We don't know whether or not there's a limit to intelligence, but since the universe is finite, there would seem to be a limit to the things one could know. Infinite intelligence is our notion of God. What are the odds that infinite intelligence is also mythological?
You can sue anyone for anything at any time. Whether it has merit is a whole other story. This is just subway trying to save face by accusation.
They're trying to save face? I thought they were going for the Streisand Effect. Not that I even eat at Subway, except in the most dire emergencies, but I'd never heard this story before.
Not a direct replacement for an Apple product?
You're serious?
Only an Apple fanatic could think something like that, given that there are indeed direct replacements for every Apple product.
Name another product that can run OS X. The only other choices are Windows, which, Windows, or Linux, which isn't nearly as user-friendly. I have friends who use both of those systems - no thank you! Only OS X gives you a *nix system that is not only very stable and configurable, but incredibly easy to use. Android is a decent imitation of iOS, looks a lot like it, but the iPhone still kills it. I mean, why do you think Apple has fanatical users?
Hate on Apple all you want. I hate them, too. Always have. But no one can touch their products, even as they try to imitate them. That's just a fact. Whether they'll be able to keep this up with Jobs gone remains to be seen, but I am not about to start using Windows.
Because this is how you get Terminators, GM.
It's how you get terminated. "Let's connect all of our machines to the Internet! What could go wrong?"
Who cares? It was a dick move regardless of what the EULA says.
My first thought was, "These two deserve each other". Tell ya what though, it's not often a corporation shows it's hand so fast. Let this be a lesson in the many possibilities of the IoT. Not that corporations believing they own the devices you've paid for is all that new, but with this type of stuff, they can really reach out and touch you.
I don't know why I would ever shop at Walmart...
Actually, late at night, Walmart's are the best place to see Aliens, not illegal immigrants, actual extraterrestrials. http://www.peopleofwalmart.com...
I shop there because because there's room to park my semi-truck. You could probably land a flying saucer there, too, at night.
Whoever wrote the summary used the wrong example. The use of "they" or "their" isn't controversial in plural. For those who didn't RTFA, the thing that's new and controversial is it's use as a singular:
“Carly cleared their voice and spoke.” In that instance, Carly does not identify as male or female, so neither “his” nor “her” is appropriate there."
I'm an old-school liberal, and about as liberal as you can get, but I don't understand what it means to identify a neither male nor female. I do know I hate having to constantly explain myself, and even hate correcting people's constant mispronunciation of my last name. If it were me, I'd just pick one or the other, and be done with it. I mean, there aren't a lot of gender-neutral choices for names so if you're going with say, "Carly", might as well let people say "she". Then again, I suppose some people don't mind spending their time correcting people.
I doubt people who sit and spout racist shit into a camera are doing it for profit.
A lot aren't, but some want to spout racist shit full-time, (and likely have a hard time holding down a job anyway), and there are many others who are less ideological than greedy, and have discovered how remunerative clickbait can be, and what an easy target the Right is. Advertising dollars make this possible. That's how we ended up with all this fake news.
I get why many advertisers wouldn't want to be associated with this dreck but, and you can ask Anonymous Coward, racist assholes buy stuff, too. Luckily, it's still a small market.
What good do the protests even do, anyhow?
Actually, protest and mass demonstration are the only way change is accomplished in the US. At least, change that benefits the people. Voting, up until very very recently, has almost always been meaningless, since the two choices were provided to us by the two parties.
But never mind all that. What I want to know is, when will this vehicle be available for purchase in GTA?
Would it surprise you to learn that this guy regularly misrepresents the purpose of studies to make his political point?
We are 20 fucking trillion dollars in debt.
What the fuck so you want?
The US budget isn't like your household budget. First of all, the federal debt is in dollars and not, say, euros. Do you know where dollars come from? The Federal government is the only source of dollars in the world. The dollar is a fiat currency. The Fed can, and does, create billions of dollars with the stroke of a keyboard. So, imagine that, whenever you were short of money, you could put some in your checking account by typing a number in your computer. Then, your budget would be like the Federal budget.
The long and short of it is, the Federal debt isn't really a big deal. The Right likes to harp on it because it's another way to attack "Big Government", one of their bogeymen. Why? Because it's the Federal government which creates the consumer protections big business hates, a.k.a., regulations.
Does the Right really not understand how the economy works? Do they really think giving money to rich people will somehow spur growth, even though we've known for decades that it's quite the opposite? Do they really not understand how a fiat currency works? Are they unable to see that decades of right-wing economics have made the rich richer, and the poor poorer? Or do they just not care as long as they get their way? Clearly the working people voting them in don't get it.
It's about time we all got healthcare for life. We no longer pay taxes to fill some king or emperor's coffers. We pay taxes for our common good, as a nation and a people. This notion in America that we're all just individuals who happen to live within some artificial borders has got to go. This notion that helping poor people somehow takes something away from others has got to go. When we raise up the poorest citizens, it directly benefits everyone else. Yet we continue to throw money at rich people, even as we see the middle- and working-class continue its slide down. It's madness, when this money could be paying for education and healthcare.
Right. There was little to care about in this data. The Snowden leaks were quite different.
What?! He would work his full work day but if he was needed during night or weekend he would work from home and they fired him? For taking care of his dying wife?!
Yeah, wow. I can't believe they'd treat a middle-class tech worker like they do regular working-class people. This can't be the normal thing, right? It's like those stories one hears about middle-class white people having run-ins with the cops where their rights aren't respected. It's as if class no longer matters in the USA.
I think Twitter needs to seriously consider removing his account.
Not that it's going to happen, but you're not the first person I've heard say this, and I could not disagree more. We really need to know what this dolt is thinking, and we should all be grateful this guy is such a self-centered idiot that he sees nothing wrong with tweeting out his every thought. The more he does it, the more people can see what kind of person he is. I wish Steve Bannon would do the same. Although, I keep wondering about these people who still seem unable to see exactly what kind of person Trump is.