To be quite honest, it's not an, uh, a very uncommon pattern of speech, if I may say so, to interject one's spoken English with, discourse... discourse particles, and, well, other minor disfluencies, which do--- which do vary by social class, but more in, uh, word choice than in what you might call actual frequency.
"The Free Dictionary" appears to be just a spammy repackaging of Wikipedia content. Lots of their articles even have a footer saying they're licensed under the GFDL from Wikipedia.
CCAE is an annotated corpus more than a dictionary. It counts words, word co-occurrences, etc. It's also manually annotated with parts of speech and other such things, not fully automated. Its scope is bigger and more recent than what was possible before computers, but the general idea is ancient: 18th-century classicists would manually compile frequency and word co-occurrence tables for ancient languages to try to get an understanding of their structure.
It does depend on how far back you go. I can believe that phone guys in the 80s didn't do a lot, but if you go further back, they tended to be at least moderately knowledgeable electricians, since a lot of phone issues ended up being something with the wiring.
I dunno what people you know, but most Americans I know just want some sort of generic reliable commuter car, neither anything particularly powerful nor overtly small/"green"/whatever. Hence the popularity of Honda Civics and similar cars.
Physical Models In an Age of Computers, a nice write-up of a large-scale physical model of the San Francisco Bay built in 1959 built to test some theories about how it'd behave if various proposed modifications were made
You can more easily get around it just by buying any incandescent bulb that's in any way "weird", which means basically anything but the "normal" bulb. Bulbs of most non-standard shapes and sizes are all grandfathered in due to not having suitable CFL replacements. For example, stuff like this or this.
Does the Prius actually keep you in the lane, or just warn if the car's drifting? If so, how close is it to a self-driving car, assuming freeway travel and no intersections; can you just take your hands off the wheel and let it auto-follow the lane?
A "sedan" in US English is what UKians call a "saloon car".
I'm not sure the UK wins less ridiculous name on this one, unless your saloon car also has swinging wooden doors, serves alcohol, and has several cowboys as passengers.
"Proper, US-sized engine blocks" aren't selling well, and when you consider the cost savings they'd forego if they didn't share parts between their US, European, and Asian lines, are even less cost-effective to sell.
If you "verify" your YouTube account with a mobile phone, they remove the length limits (which are otherwise 15 mins), though there's still some sort of (quite high) filesize limit. That's why it's possible for there to be things like 100 hours of Nyan Cat.
The simplicity of the code you can write in this language seems to be mostly due to the cyclic nature, which is something other beat-oriented computer-music languages also have: once you have "repeat" as a built-in thing, anything built on regular repetitions is easy to program. But it adapts it in a way that feels more low-level and demo-scene-ish by tying it to a cyclical "stack" in a bastard-son-of-Forth sort of way. Will have to play around with it a bit.
Depends on what you're arguing. If you mean that consumers prefer to buy walled-garden devices like iPads versus programmable computers, I agree that's something we have to fix ourselves, through outreach, PR, making better programming environments, whatever. But another angle is the government passing laws that make it increasingly difficult to offer unrestricted general-purpose computers. That I think is much more clearly a civil-liberties issue than just an issue of consumer preference.
This includes everything commercial, even ex-Soviet states flying 40-year-old planes with questionable maintenance practices, and the total deaths are still only 401.
A few hours ago, Mars received a garbled message from Phobos. "We require immediate military support. Something fraggin' evil is coming out of the Gateways! Computer systems have gone berserk!" The rest was incoherent. Soon afterwards, Deimos simply vanished from the sky. Since then, attempts to establish contact with either moon have been unsuccessful.
You and your buddies, the only combat troop for fifty million miles were sent up pronto to Phobos. You were ordered to secure the perimeter of the base while the rest of the team went inside. For several hours, your radio picked up the sounds of combat: guns firing, men yelling orders, screams, bones cracking, then finally, silence. Seems your buddies are dead.
That's more or less what I think the 3d-movies fad was trying to do: produce an in-theater experience that was hard to replicate in home theaters using current technology. A bit misguided though, imo.
How about some couches and beer? It doesn't even have to be that classy; movie theaters have gotten bad enough that the classiness level of a brewpub would be a big improvement.
You could also probably supplement it later by writing a book or something about being Stephen Hawking's techie. It's a nice attention-grabber to have on your resume, too.
For comparison, the entire budget of the National Science Foundation, across all programs and disciplines, is $6.87 billion.
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Had one branch of the family that was real religious. Didn't believe in anything even *resembling* euthanasia. Insisted on keeping my aunt alive, no matter what. It was an ugly, sad end. Bad stuff.
I've also run into this, but it seems odd from a traditional religious perspective. Typically very religious people were more likely to take the "pray and die quietly at home" route, and it's still the case that nuns and monks typically have far fewer heroic end-of-life medical procedures than laypeople do.
Re:Ken Murray's blog
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Evidence isn't that strong, but yeah, there seems to be some positive effect, though not necessarily due to caffeine (seems to happen with decaf coffee also).
Slashdot Mirror
I rarely see the start page, but this looks like it affects the results pages also.
To be quite honest, it's not an, uh, a very uncommon pattern of speech, if I may say so, to interject one's spoken English with, discourse... discourse particles, and, well, other minor disfluencies, which do--- which do vary by social class, but more in, uh, word choice than in what you might call actual frequency.
"The Free Dictionary" appears to be just a spammy repackaging of Wikipedia content. Lots of their articles even have a footer saying they're licensed under the GFDL from Wikipedia.
CCAE is an annotated corpus more than a dictionary. It counts words, word co-occurrences, etc. It's also manually annotated with parts of speech and other such things, not fully automated. Its scope is bigger and more recent than what was possible before computers, but the general idea is ancient: 18th-century classicists would manually compile frequency and word co-occurrence tables for ancient languages to try to get an understanding of their structure.
It does depend on how far back you go. I can believe that phone guys in the 80s didn't do a lot, but if you go further back, they tended to be at least moderately knowledgeable electricians, since a lot of phone issues ended up being something with the wiring.
"Optimal furnace bakes solar cells better" sounded more impressive.
I dunno what people you know, but most Americans I know just want some sort of generic reliable commuter car, neither anything particularly powerful nor overtly small/"green"/whatever. Hence the popularity of Honda Civics and similar cars.
It's common to run servers on UTC rather than in a local time zone, which is basically equivalent to GMT.
Both from the first week of December, so admittedly I may be forgetting a lot of interesting stuff from the first 11 months of the year:
Institutional Memory and Reverse Smuggling, a tale of document-management woes, corporate management foibles, and engineering archaeology
Physical Models In an Age of Computers, a nice write-up of a large-scale physical model of the San Francisco Bay built in 1959 built to test some theories about how it'd behave if various proposed modifications were made
You can more easily get around it just by buying any incandescent bulb that's in any way "weird", which means basically anything but the "normal" bulb. Bulbs of most non-standard shapes and sizes are all grandfathered in due to not having suitable CFL replacements. For example, stuff like this or this.
Does the Prius actually keep you in the lane, or just warn if the car's drifting? If so, how close is it to a self-driving car, assuming freeway travel and no intersections; can you just take your hands off the wheel and let it auto-follow the lane?
A "sedan" in US English is what UKians call a "saloon car".
I'm not sure the UK wins less ridiculous name on this one, unless your saloon car also has swinging wooden doors, serves alcohol, and has several cowboys as passengers.
"Proper, US-sized engine blocks" aren't selling well, and when you consider the cost savings they'd forego if they didn't share parts between their US, European, and Asian lines, are even less cost-effective to sell.
If you "verify" your YouTube account with a mobile phone, they remove the length limits (which are otherwise 15 mins), though there's still some sort of (quite high) filesize limit. That's why it's possible for there to be things like 100 hours of Nyan Cat.
The simplicity of the code you can write in this language seems to be mostly due to the cyclic nature, which is something other beat-oriented computer-music languages also have: once you have "repeat" as a built-in thing, anything built on regular repetitions is easy to program. But it adapts it in a way that feels more low-level and demo-scene-ish by tying it to a cyclical "stack" in a bastard-son-of-Forth sort of way. Will have to play around with it a bit.
Depends on what you're arguing. If you mean that consumers prefer to buy walled-garden devices like iPads versus programmable computers, I agree that's something we have to fix ourselves, through outreach, PR, making better programming environments, whatever. But another angle is the government passing laws that make it increasingly difficult to offer unrestricted general-purpose computers. That I think is much more clearly a civil-liberties issue than just an issue of consumer preference.
This includes everything commercial, even ex-Soviet states flying 40-year-old planes with questionable maintenance practices, and the total deaths are still only 401.
A few hours ago, Mars received a garbled message from Phobos. "We require immediate military support. Something fraggin' evil is coming out of the Gateways! Computer systems have gone berserk!" The rest was incoherent. Soon afterwards, Deimos simply vanished from the sky. Since then, attempts to establish contact with either moon have been unsuccessful.
You and your buddies, the only combat troop for fifty million miles were sent up pronto to Phobos. You were ordered to secure the perimeter of the base while the rest of the team went inside. For several hours, your radio picked up the sounds of combat: guns firing, men yelling orders, screams, bones cracking, then finally, silence. Seems your buddies are dead.
That's more or less what I think the 3d-movies fad was trying to do: produce an in-theater experience that was hard to replicate in home theaters using current technology. A bit misguided though, imo.
How about some couches and beer? It doesn't even have to be that classy; movie theaters have gotten bad enough that the classiness level of a brewpub would be a big improvement.
You could also probably supplement it later by writing a book or something about being Stephen Hawking's techie. It's a nice attention-grabber to have on your resume, too.
For comparison, the entire budget of the National Science Foundation, across all programs and disciplines, is $6.87 billion.
I've also run into this, but it seems odd from a traditional religious perspective. Typically very religious people were more likely to take the "pray and die quietly at home" route, and it's still the case that nuns and monks typically have far fewer heroic end-of-life medical procedures than laypeople do.
Evidence isn't that strong, but yeah, there seems to be some positive effect, though not necessarily due to caffeine (seems to happen with decaf coffee also).
For those too lazy to Google: here you go